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Mimetite from
Bou Skour Mine, Bou Skour mining district, Agdz Cercle, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Mimetite
Formula:Pb5(AsO4)3Cl
Habit:short hexagonal prisms with pyramid; needles
Colour:white;pale yellow
Abundance at site:Rare
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Visually Identified
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Rosasite1 photo of Mimetite associated with Rosasite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Mimetite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Bou Skour Mine, Bou Skour mining district, Agdz Cercle, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco
Photo GalleryView Gallery (3 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:346527
Long-form Identifier:1:3:346527:1
GUID (UUID V4):a29f4e78-46f6-49ae-9e0a-d7f9f29da512
Nearest other occurrences of Mimetite
19.6km (12.2 miles) Agoulzi Mine, Bou Skour mining district, Agdz Cercle, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco
54.8km (34.1 miles) Tachgagalt Mine, Tansifte Caïdat, Agdz Cercle, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco
64.7km (40.2 miles) Oumlil Mine (incl. Oumlil East Mine), Oumlil, Tansifte Caïdat, Agdz Cercle, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco
67.4km (41.9 miles) Taouzzakt hill, Imiter mining district, Tinghir Cercle, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco
72.2km (44.9 miles) Imiter mine, Imiter mining district, Tinghir Cercle, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
= 5.895(2) Z=2 X-ray Powder Pattern: Bou Skour mine, Morocco. 11.73 (10), 2.938 (8), 2.451 (8), 4.43...0.65 11.35 [10.47] 99.50 [102.18] (1) Bou Skour mine, Morocco; contains very little malachite and quartz;...09[(AsO4)2.83(OH)0.68]Σ=3.51(OH)6∙3H2O. (2) Santa Lucia mine, Sardinia, Italy; by electron microprobe, H2O calculated...cuprite, copper, mimetite, quartz. Distribution: In the Bou Skour mine, Djebel Sarhro, Morocco. At Mutoshi...Katanga Province, Congo (Shaba Province, Zaire). From the Luisito mine, Anora, Córdoba Province, Spain
Catalog/List
94403 U.S.A. Old No. l Headfnme. Whi ■ key Hlll Mine, Tuohnne County, CaUfomla (r■-,u. .SV•t- tor cr11•t•J...association. Few of the minute crystals you see on mine or quarry dumps or even on cabinet specimens will...dumps or surface float. Mirute crystals seen on a mine dump are a clue but nearly always tao weathered...'hite hairs on feldspar. 784 ADAMITE, Moha\'.1k Mine, San Bernardino County, r.alifornia. Group o f colorless...in fissure cavity in gneiss. 109 AGARDITE, Bou Skour, Morocco. Pale blue acicular crystals on goethite
Journal (issue)
Frontcover Wulfenite with Mimetite on Barite 5.1 cm, from the Rowley mine, Maricopa County, Arizona....(only one known) for The Red Cloud Gold & Silver Mining Company (1880) Mark Hay collection Introduction...Steve Mas]ansky Dale Armstrong Bill Besse Bisbee Mining and Historical Museum Paul & Barbara Matt Lauren...explore literally thousands of mineral occurrences, mine dumps and abandoned mines in the public domain administered...Heintzelman (1805-1880) shipped ore specimens from his mine to be exhibited at the Cincinnati Merchant's Exchange
Catalog/List
SPRING 1989 ft. We((enj\linera(s Mineral Dealer & Mine Agent "Endsleigh", 50 Daniell Road, Truro, Cornwall...5x2-Jx1-J", £8.50. ALLOPHANE/LINARITE. Maid of Sunshine Mine,Cochise Co..Arizona.U.S.A. Highly attractive and... 1-£xl£x1", £8.00. 5- ALSTONITE. Fallowfields Mine,Nr.Hexham,Northumbria. A 2x£" channel developed...1£x£x5/8", £4.00. 13. ANGLESITE. Touissit,Nr.Oujda,Morocco. Choice , transparent slightly cloudy (due to Plumbian...2£x1Jx5/8". £5-00. 28. AZURITE/MALACHITE. Tsumcorp> Mine,Otavi.Namibia. Choice,lustrous-surfaced composite
Catalog/List
4x31;x1i;", £58.00 8. AZURI TE. Bou Skour , Jb el Sarhro , Morocco . Well formed deep blue crystals...£8.00 11. BARYTES. r~ibl a d Dn, Atlas ~1ts. , Morocco. Sharp lustro us cre8my to pale pinkish clustBrs...matrix. 1-tx1~ " , £2 . 25p 61 . LANGITE. Allihi os Mine , Co. Cork , Irul...075~.0 si11cim<;n C: 1~x1'x1;}" , 1.2 . 50p 69 . MIMETITE v,riuty C_'IMPYLITE. Dryqill r in. , ~ .ldbuck...2.l.-x2tx2 " , £9.00 87 . QUARTZ. Mick uy Crwun Mine , Oumy , Colo r adO ,. U.S . A. Fine milky to tr8nsporent
Journal (issue)
articles of interest to mineralogi tl. collectors, and mining historians. Contributions or suggestions for articles...barytocalcitc (10), galena (21), hematite (15), mimetite (for which read mostly campylite, 21), pyromorphite... Frontispiece. Mimetite(varietycampylite)on romanechite, 90 mmtall,fromthe DryGill Mine,CaldbeckFells...reproduced with permissionof RobLavinsky. UKJuurn.11 of Mine~ & Mincr~h No. 31 -3- specimens in the last decades...fluorite from Frazer's Hush. Specimens from Cambokecls Mine have more subtle colours but are no less spectacular
Book
On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298...ALLEN, GEORGE B. --and W. Hunt: The Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County, Arizona 19:139-144 ALLGOOD, GENNE...Allgood, C. Williams: Ramsdellite from the Mistake mine [Arizona] 14:333-335 ALLGOOD, ROBERT W. -with G...the Mistake mine [Arizona] 14:333-335 ALMA Famous mineral localities: the Home Sweet Home mine, [near Alma
Book
Keweenaw area of north Michigan; at the Copper Queen mine, Bisbee, Arizona and at Georgetown, New Mexico....often obtained by individual prospectors by placer mining. It is found along the mountain ranges of the western...areas including Kimberley, Pretoria (the Premier mine is in this area), and Jagersfontein in the Orange...Localities. Lead is found in Sweden at the Harstig mine, Pajsberg; from the gold placers of the Ural Mountains...several localities in Chile, and from the Mohawk mine, Keweenaw County, Michigan; also from Lake Superior
Catalog/List
of matrix. Possible Augite (Near Laghetto, Rome Province I t a l y lx1 £1.25 1 x 2 £2.50 004 AERINITE...Arsenate green micro crystals on matrix (Bou Skour , Morocco) 3mm£4.50 015ALABANDITE Mn Sulphide pure...black masses i n green A c t i n o l i t e (Bastnas Mine, Riddarhyttan Sweden) lx1 £1.10 010ALMANDINE F...Muscovite red micaeous masses on matrix (Praborna Mine,St Marcel, Val d ' Aosta I t a l y ) lx1 70p 1 x...i c h fawn massive. Xrayed material. (Sjogruvan Mine, Grythyttan , Sweden) lx1 £1.50 1 x 2 £3 2 x 2 £6
Book (edition)
(top, right) vanadinite, Morocco; (center, left) wulfenite, San Francisco mine, Sonora, Mexico; (center)...rnodochrosite, N’Chwaning mine, South Africa; (lower left, center) wulfenite, Red Cloud mine, Arizona; (lower...(lower right, center) mimetite, Tsiimehb, Namibia; (lower, right) gold, Amazonas, Brazi!. All specimens from...Pe Wr * se vat © C6 tad GAa Snive Sr Certain Mine (ax agry wh Oe ee — SS 4 eae wid Bharce ©...ye ty a ara id (ean ® “1 le hI AAP : oo A Mine seh Ranier “i i : lever vei ekealps ; cet
Book (edition)
(top. 1ight) vanadinite, Morocco; (center, left) wulfen ite San Francisco mine, Sonora, Mexico; (center)...Mountains, Utah; (lower le ft) rhodochrosite, N'Chwaning mine, Sou th A frica; {lower left, center) wulfenite...Red Clouo rrnn·a, Arizona; (lower right, center) mimetite, Tsurneb, Namibia, (lower, right) gold, Amazonas...coating fractures in sandstone at the Fuemrol No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah; also sparsely...Silver Plume district, and at the Little Emma mine, Clear Creek County; at the Enterprise mine, Dolores County;
Catalog/List
005AGANDITE Y blue green micro crystals on matrix (Bou Skour Morocco) 3mm £4.50 006 ALBITE rich orange-red masses...SILICATE) black masses i n Actinolite. (Bastnas Mine, Riddarhyttan,Sweden) lx1 £ 1 . 1 0 218ALMANDINE...025AHRERITE-RUTNAHORITE rich fawn massive.(Sjogruvan Mine, Grythyttan Sweden).Looks rarer but i s only a dolomite...covered with Hexagonal small crystals.(Safrou Morocco) 1 " diameter £1.20 03uARFVEDSONITE r i c h blackish...masses on pure greenish Scorodite. (Gold H i l l Mine. Toole County Utah) 8nsl 50p 1 . 5 c m £1.20 081
Book (edition)
Linopolis, Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43...expressed in abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture)...dept. (departement), dept. (departamento), dist. (district). Less common terms are not abbreviated, e.g.... canton (Switzerland), vilayet (Turkey), region (Chile), kray and oblast (Russia). The country names...rich Katanga province was renamed Shaba by Mobutu, and is now the Katanga administrative region again. The
Book
In the shafts and tunnels of a sixteenth-century mine INTRODUCTION arabic^groffcvinditaris.f} norrafludd9...sul¬ phides that you will meet frequently outside mining areas are those of iron, namely pyrite, FeS2, and...want to check this, you will have to visit a salt mine; halides are dissolved by groundwater if they are... The crystals show a distinct lack of Above: Mimetite. which crystallizes in the hexagonal system. This...walking and for work in such places as quarries and mine dumps. The second requirement is for old, expendable
Book (edition)
British Columbia NF Labrador (part of Newfoundland Province) MB Manitoba NB New Brunswick NF Newfoundland...id ohlane nerwiplapinion) & Ncense cneeriooet BOU ; ESIMS.. REMMI MG + tanad i MPL -HleY seep...Spotsylvania Co., and Partridge mine, Orange Co., VA, and at Dahlonega, GA; Homestake mine, Lawrence Co., SD; Silver...Lake Co., Breckenridge(*), Summit Co., Ground Hog mine(*), Gilman Co., Silverton and Telluride, San Juan...Ledge mine, Nevada Co., Jamestown, Tuolumne Co., Colorado quartz mine, Mariposa Co., Bonanza mine, Trinity
Book
metal and sulphur in a variety frequently phides mining that of structures, covalent than will you...want to check this, you will have to visit a salt mine; halides are dissolved by groundwater if they are... The crystals show a distinct lack of Above. Mimetite, which crystallizes in the hexagonal system. ...walking and for work in such places as quarries and mine dumps. The second requirement is for old, expendable...country. Above. Southwestern England, a traditional mining area. Colours show rock types. Black is dolerite
Book
l'Universite-Pierre et Marie Curie, de l'Institut Catholique. Province. - Les collections de l'Ecole des Mines d'Ales...de Strasbourg. De nombreu-;es autres villes de province possedent des collections interessantes par leur...gazeux (sublimation). La courbe de fusion separe la region correspondant a l'etat solide de celle correspondant...ne sont plus nettement differencies ; c'est la region de l'etat fluide. L'etat liquide presente des caracteres...tres faible : PbCu(AsO 4 ) (OH). Analyse d'une mimetite. - Il s'agit d' un mineral oxyde et !'analyse
Book
K(U02)As04*3H20, Tet. Vitreous yellow. Fuemrole mine, Temple Mt., Emery Co., Utah, USA. H= 2-3, Djjj=...276. Achrematite, E Mallet, 1875. A mixture of mimetite and wulfenite. Am. Min. 62 (1977), 170. Actinolite...grey, bluish-grey, yellow, light green. Langban mine, Filipstad (near), Varmland, Sweden. H= 5, Djjj=3...5As30ig, E Rhom. Translucent blue-green. Terres mine, St. Ausdell, Cornwall, England and/or Johanngeorgenstadt...804)3 •nH20, ® Hex. Transparent bluish. Lapis-lazuli mine, Sar-e-Sang, Badakshan, Afghanistan. H= 5.5-6, Djj4=
Book
1000° Mots inc. Native Gold on Quartz, Paymaster mine, South Porcupine, Ontario / Photo by Brian Boyle...Marquis imprimeur inc. Barite on Quartz, Rock Candy mine, Grand Forks, British Columbia / Photo by Ken Mayer...Mayer Publisher Pyromorphite, Society Girl mine, Moyie, British Columbia / Photo by Ken Mayer Mineralogical... Ontario Canada Diopside on Grossular, Jeffrey mine, Asbestos, Quebec / Photo by Jeffrey A. Scovil...including amateur col- lectors, company executives, mine owners, and vari- in the appropriate position.
Book
CO3)4.0-6H2O, from a lapis-lazuli mine, Sar-e-Sang, Badakshan province, Afghanistan. The powder diagram...hexagonal crystals from the Bou-Skour copper mine, Jebel Sarhro,* Ouazazate,* Morocco, have the composition...270. Natural /1-FeOOH, occurring at the Akagane mine, Iwate prefecture, Japan, and named from the locality...skarns in the Solvech fluorite deposit. Karagandin region. Kazakhstan, have a 12-87, c 14-97 A, and a composition...aluminous-serpentine, 20th List) from the Lake Superior region [M.A., 15, 411; 19, 268]. An unnecessary name for
Journal (entire run)
CL. Morvell Lithiophorite from the Kalgoorlie District, Wes tern Australia -1. Ostwald That Elusive Stichtite...Acicular Bustarnite and Ferroan Johannsenite, North Mine, Broken Hill, N.S.W.- W.R. Ryal/ & Albert Chapman...J.E. Johnson Copper Minerals from Bali Lo Copper Mine, Ashburton Downs, Western Australia - PJ. Bridge...K. Ferguson Further Minerals from the Dome Rock Mine, South Australia - E.R. Segnit •._ Ferrierite from...Territory - DH. McColl Corynite from the Mt. Martin District, Western Australia - J. Ostwald - Zoned Siderite
Book (edition)
Absitc. var. of brannerite. A .W.G. Whittle ( 1 954) Mining Rev. S. Austral. Dept. Mines no. 9 (for 1 952)...44. c 1 3 .50 A. A natural occurrence at a coal mine in the (TL) Lvov-Volynsk basin, USSR. Achates. syn...fPDF 25- 183 ). (TL) Bou-Skour copper deposit. Jebcl Sarhro. Ouazazatc, Morocco. Named for J . Agard...09. c 7.76 A . Z=2 [PDF 27-620]. (TL) San Carlos mine. Guanajuato. Mexico. Named for S. Aguilar. Agustitc...PDF 34- 1 266 on synth. material]. (TL) Akaganc mine. Iwate Pref., Japan. Named for locality. 9 Akalidavyne
 
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