Troilite from Sahara Desert, North Africa


Algeria
Adrar Province Reggane District Reggane ⓘ Erg Chech 002 Meteorite	www.lpi.usra.edu (2020) https://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/metbull.php?code=72475
Zaouiet Kounta District In Zghmir ⓘ Adrar 003 meteorite	Grady, M.M., Pratesi, G. & Moggi-Cecchi, V. (2015) Atlas of Meteorites. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, United Kingdom. 373 pages.
Béchar Province Abadla District ⓘ Bechar 006 Lunar meteorite	Vorobyov, Dmitry (2023) Personal Communication.
Bordj Badji Mokhtar Province Bordj Badji Mokhtar District Bordj Badji Mokhtar ⓘ Ilafegh 009 meteorite	Bischoff, A., Palme, H., Geiger, T. & Spettel, B. (1992) Mineralogy and Chemistry of the EL-Chondritic Melt Rock Ilafegh-009 (Abstract): LPSC XXIII: page 105. (March 1992) McCoy, T. J., Keil, K., Bogard, D., Casanova, I. & Lindstrom, M. M. (1992) ILAFEGH 009: A New Sample of the Diverse Suite of Enstatite Impact Melt Rocks (Abstract). LPSC XXIII: page 869. (March 1992)
ⓘ Ouallen meteorite	Oba, T., Nagase, K. & Hayashi, A. (1998) Mineralogy and petrology of chondrule in Ouallen (Tanezrouft) meteorite: Bulletin Joetsu Univ. Educ. 17(2): 891-899. (March1998). Ramdohr, Paul (1972) The Opaque Minerals in Stony Meteorites. De Gruyter. doi:10.1515/9783112651025
In Salah Province In Salah District Foggaret Ezzaouia ⓘ Acfer 094 meteorite	Barth, M.I.F. et al. (2018) Sulfide-oxide assemblages in Acfer 094—Clues to nebular metal-gas interactions. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 53, 2: 187-203. (Feb 2018).
ⓘ Acfer 217 meteorite	Bland, P., Hutchison, R., Pillinger, C. T. & Bischoff, A. (1992) A Unique Type 4 Chondrite from the Sahara-Acfer 217: Meteoritics 27 (3): 204. (July1992)
Aguemour ⓘ Acfer 211 meteorite	Grady, M.M., Pratesi, G. & Moggi-Cecchi, V. (2015) Atlas of Meteorites. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, United Kingdom. 373 pages.
Timimoun Province Aougrout District ⓘ Hassi-Jekna meteorite	Buchwald, Vagn F. (1975) Handbook of Iron Meteorites Vol. 2 - Their History, Distribution, Composition and Structure. University of California Press.
Tindouf Province ⓘ Northwest Africa 11273 Lunar meteorite	www.lpi.usra.edu (2020) https://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/metbull.php?code=66064

Egypt
Matrouh Governorate ⓘ Minqar Abd el Nabi meteorite	Meteoritics & Planetary Science 41, Nr 8, Supplement, A201–A216 (2006)
New Valley Governorate East Uweinat Desert Gebel Kamil Crater (Kamil Crater) ⓘ Gebel Kamil meteorite	tin.er.usgs.gov (2010) http://tin.er.usgs.gov/meteor/metbull.php?code=52031
ⓘ Isna meteorite	Methot, R. L. et al., (1975) Mineralogy, petrology and chemistry of the Isna (C3) meteorite. Meteoritics 10 (2): 121-131. (Jun 1975)

Libya
Jufra District Dar al Gani ⓘ Dar Al Gani 319 (DaG 319) meteorite	Ikeda, Y., Kita, N. T., Morishita, Y. & Weisberg, M. K. (2003) Primitive clasts in the Dar al Gani 319 polymict ureilite: Precursors of the ureilites. Antarctic Meteorite Research 16: 105-127. (Mar 2003). Ikeda, Y., Prinz, M. & Nehru, C. E. (2000) Lithic and mineral clasts in the Dar Al Gani (DAG) 319 polymict ureilite: Antarctic Meteorite Research. Twenty-fourth Symposium on Antarctic Meteorites, NIPR Symposium No. 13., Editor in Chief, Takeo Hirasawa. National Institute of Polar Research, Tokyo. pp.177-221. (Mar 2000).
ⓘ Dar al Gani 896 meteorite (DaG 896)	Grady, M.M., Pratesi, G. & Moggi-Cecchi, V. (2015) Atlas of Meteorites. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, United Kingdom. 373 pp. Folco, L. et al. (2004) Extensive impact melting on the H-chondrite parent asteroid during the cataclysmic bombardment of the early solar system: Evidence from the achondritic meteorite Dar al Gani 896. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 68 (10): 2379-2397. (May 2004).
ⓘ Dar al Gani 978 meteorite (DaG 978 meteorite)	Zhang, A.-C. & Yurimoto, H. (2013). Petrography and mineralogy of the ungrouped type 3 carbonaceous chondrite Dar al Gani 978. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 48 (9): 1651–1677. (Sept 2013)
Wadi al Shatii District ⓘ Hammadah al Hamra 093 meteorite (HaH 093)	Grady, M.M., Pratesi, G. & Moggi-Cecchi, V. (2015) Atlas of Meteorites. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, United Kingdom. 373 pages.

Mali
Kidal Region Tessalit Cercle ⓘ Trifir meteorite	Ramdohr, Paul (1972) The Opaque Minerals in Stony Meteorites. De Gruyter. doi:10.1515/9783112651025
Taoudénit Region Taoudénit Cercle ⓘ Sebkha el Melah 001 meteorite	www.lpi.usra.edu (n.d.) https://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/metbull.php?sea=Sebkha+el+Melah+001&sfor=names&ants=&nwas=&falls=&valids=&stype=contains&lrec=50&map=ge&browse=&country=All&srt=name&categ=All&mblist=All&rect=&phot=&strewn=&snew=0&pnt=Normal%20table&code=78420

Mauritania
Adrar Region Chinguetti ⓘ Chinguetti meteorite	Ramdohr, Paul (1972) The Opaque Minerals in Stony Meteorites. De Gruyter. doi:10.1515/9783112651025 Lapaz, L. & Lapaz, J. (1954)The Adrar (=Chinguetti), Mauritania, French West Africa, Meteorite (CN=0127,202): Meteoritics 1(2):187-196.
Assaba Region ⓘ Boumdeid (2011) meteorite	(n.d.) Meteoritical Bulletin Database, The Meteoritical Society.
Dakhlet Nouadhibou Region Nouadhibou ⓘ Galb Inal meteorite	(n.d.) Meteoritical Bulletin Database, The Meteoritical Society.
Inchiri Region Akjoujt (Akjout; Fort Repoux) ⓘ Akjoujt Mine (Guelb Moghrein Mine)	Sakellaris, G.A., Meyer, F.M. (2008) A Metamorphic Origin of the Guelb Moghrein Fe Oxide-Copper-Gold-Cobalt Deposit, Mauritania. http://www.minsoc.ru/2008-1-101-1
ⓘ Guelb Moghrein	Kolb, Jochen & Petrov, Nikolay. (2015). The Guelb Moghrein Cu–Au deposit: Neoarchaean hydrothermal sulfide mineralization in carbonate-facies iron formation. Ore Geology Reviews. 78. 10.1016/j.oregeorev.2015.09.003.
Tagant Region ⓘ Boumdeid (2003) meteorite	(n.d.) Meteoritical Bulletin Database, The Meteoritical Society.
Tiris Zemmour Region Bir Moghrein ⓘ Bir Moghrein meteorite	(n.d.) Meteoritical Bulletin Database, The Meteoritical Society.
ⓘ Mreïra meteorite	(n.d.) Meteoritical Bulletin Database, The Meteoritical Society.

Morocco
Drâa-Tafilalet Region Errachidia Province Er-Rissani Cercle Sidi Ali Caïdat ⓘ Northwest Africa 4590 meteorite (NWA 4590)	www.lpi.usra.edu (2020) http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/metbull.php?code=44983 Connolly, Jr., H. C. et al., (2007) Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 92, 2007 September: MAPS 42 (9), 1647-1694. (Sept 2007) Connolly Jr., H. C. et al. (2007) The Meteoritical Bulletin, No. 92, 2007 September. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 4 (9): 1647-1694. (Sept 2007) Kuehner, S. M. & Irving, A. J. (2007) Primary Ferric Iron-Bearing Rhönite in Plutonic Igneous Angrite NWA 4590: Implications for Redox Conditions on the Angrite Parent Body. American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2007, abstract #P41A-0219. (Dec 2007)
Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra Region Boujdour Province Jraifia Cercle ⓘ Oued Awlitis 001 Lunar meteorite	Wittmann, A. et al. (2015): LPS XLVI, Abstract #1141. Wittmann, A. et al. (2014): M & PS, 49, A437
Es Semara Province Es Semara Cercle Jdiriya ⓘ Zag H3-6 meteorite (Sagd meteorite; Tan-Tan meteorite)	Rubin, A. E., Zolensky, M. E. & Bodnar, R. J. (2002) The halite-bearing Zag and Monahans (1998) meteorite breccias: Shock metamorphism, thermal metamorphism and aqueous alteration on the H-chondrite parent body. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, vol. 37( 1) pp. 125-141 (Jan 2002)
Tarfaya Province Daoura-El Hagounia Cercle El Hagounia Caïdat ⓘ Al Haggounia 001 meteorite	Harold C. Connally, Jr. & 7 others (2007). The Meteoritical Bulletin, No. 92, 2007 September. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 42, 1647-1694.
Souss-Massa Region Tata Province Akka Cercle Ait Ouabelli Caïdat ⓘ Kheneg Ljouâd	Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 106, in preparation (2017)
Fam El Hisn ⓘ Tirhert meteorite	(n.d.)

Niger
Agadez Arlit ⓘ Tafassasset meteorite	Bourot-Denise, M., Zanda, B. & M. Javoy, M. (2012) Tafassasset: An Equilibrated CR Chondrite. 33rd Annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, March 11-15, 2002, Houston, Texas, abstract no.1611. (Mar 2012). Russell, S.S., Zipfel, J., Grossman, J.N. & Grady, M.M. (2002). The Meteoritical Bulletin, No. 86, 2002 July. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 37 (7,Suppl.): pp. A157-A184. (July 2002).
ⓘ Tassédet 004 meteorite	www.lpi.usra.edu (2021) https://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/metbull.php?sea=Tass%C3%A9det+004&sfor=names&ants=&nwas=&falls=&valids=&stype=contains&lrec=50&map=ge&browse=&country=All&srt=name&categ=All&mblist=All&rect=&phot=&strewn=&snew=0&pnt=Normal%20table&code=70035

North Africa
Sahara Desert ⓘ Sahara 02500 meteorite	Owocki, K. & Muszyńcki, A. (2012) Shock veins in the Sahara 02500 ordinary chondrite. Geologos 18 (2): 111-118.
ⓘ Sahara 03505 meteorite	(n.d.) Meteoritical Bulletin Database, The Meteoritical Society.
ⓘ Sahara 97072 meteorite	Lehner, S. W., McDonough, W. F., & Németh, P. (2014). EH3 matrix mineralogy with major and trace element composition compared to chondrules. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 49(12), 2219-2240. Péter Németh, Stephen W. Lehner, Michail I. Petaev, Peter R. Buseck (2013): Kumdykolite, a high-temperature feldspar from an enstatite chondrite. American Mineralogist, 98, 1070-1073. Lehner, S. W., Nemeth, P., Petaev, M. I., & Buseck, P. R. (2013). Origin of Fine-Grained Albite in an EH3 Sulfidized Chondrule. LPI Contributions, 1719, 2500. Gannoun, A., Boyet, M., El Goresy, A., & Devouard, B. (2011). REE and actinide microdistribution in Sahara 97072 and ALHA77295 EH3 chondrites: A combined cosmochemical and petrologic investigation. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 75(11), 3269-3289
ⓘ Sahara 99555 meteorite	Floss, C., Crozaz, G., McKay, G., Mikouchi, T. & Killgore, M. (2003) Petrogenesis of angrites. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 67(24): 4775-4789. (Dec 2003) Mikouchi, T., McKay, G., Le, L. & Mittlefehldt, D. W. (200O) Preliminary Examination of Sahara 99555: Mineralogy and Experimental Studies of a New Angrite (abstract). Lunar and Planetary Science XXXI. abstract no. 1970. (March 2000)

Northwest Africa Meteorites
ⓘ Northwest Africa 11344 meteorite (NWA 11344)	(n.d.) Meteoritical Bulletin Database, The Meteoritical Society.
ⓘ Northwest Africa 4801 meteorite (NWA 4801)	Weisberg et al., (2008) Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 94: Meteoritics and Planetary Science 43 (9): 1551-1588. (Sept 2008) Anorthite, Diopside, Olivine Merrillite, Pleonaste, Spinel, Troilite

Sudan
River Nile ⓘ Almahata Sitta meteorite	Kimura, M., Weisberg, M. K., Takaki, A., Imae, N., & Yamaguchi, A. (2021). An Almahata Sitta EL3 fragment: implications for the complex thermal history of enstatite chondrites. Progress in Earth and Planetary Science, 8(1), 1-12. Bischoff, A., Horstmann, M., Barrat, J-A., Chaussidon, M., Pack, A., Herwartz, D., Ward, D., Vollmer, C.& Decker D. (2014) Trachyandesitic volcanism in the early Solar System: Proceedings National Academy Science 111 (35): 12689-12692. Michael K. Weisberg, Caroline Smith, Gretchen Benedix, Cristopher K. D. Herd, Kevin Righter, Henning Hack, Akira Yamaguchi, Hasnaa Chennaoui & Jeffrey N. Grossman (2009). The Meteoritical Bulletin, No. 96, September 2009, Meteoritics & Planetary Science 44, (#9), 1355-1397.

Tunisia
Tataouine Tataouine (Foum Tatahouine) ⓘ Tatahouine meteorite	Ramdohr, Paul (1972) The Opaque Minerals in Stony Meteorites. De Gruyter. doi:10.1515/9783112651025 M Chinellato collection Science. 4/17/1998, Vol. 280 Issue 5362, p412. 3p. Gooley, R. & Moore, C. B. ( 1976) Native metal in diogenite meteorites: American Mineralogist 61 (5/6, Part I): 373-378. (May-June 1976)

Western Sahara
al-Saqiyah al-Hamra'a (Saguia el Hamra) Dchira ⓘ Northwest Africa 773 Lunar meteorite (NWA 773)	Meteoritical Society Abstracts (2001)
ⓘ Itqiy meteorite	Patzer, A., Hill, D. H., & Boynton, W. V. (2001). Itqiy: A metal‐rich enstatite meteorite with achondritic texture. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 36(11), 1495-1505.

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