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Galena from
Touissit, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region, Morocco


Locality type:Deposit
Classification
Species:Galena
Formula:PbS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Anglesiteⓘ105 photos of Galena associated with Anglesite at this locality.
Cerussiteⓘ40 photos of Galena associated with Cerussite at this locality.
Malachiteⓘ10 photos of Galena associated with Malachite at this locality.
Smithsoniteⓘ10 photos of Galena associated with Smithsonite at this locality.
Dolomiteⓘ8 photos of Galena associated with Dolomite at this locality.
Wulfeniteⓘ4 photos of Galena associated with Wulfenite at this locality.
Sphaleriteⓘ3 photos of Galena associated with Sphalerite at this locality.
Lead-bearing Aragoniteⓘ1 photo of Galena associated with Lead-bearing Aragonite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Galena data
Locality Data:Click here to view Touissit, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region, Morocco
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:144717
Long-form Identifier:1:3:144717:0
GUID (UUID V4):4efa5b33-8cfb-4ea6-b775-1bc278d9bd15
Nearest other occurrences of Galena
3.3km (2.0 miles) ⓘZellidja Mine, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region, Morocco
4.5km (2.8 miles) ⓘBou Beker (Bou Bekker; Bou Becker), Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region, Morocco
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
117–146 Genesis of the Touissit-Bou Beker Mississippi Valley-Type District (Morocco-Algeria) and Its Relationship...Geology, Faculty of Sciences, B.P. 717, 60000 Oujda, Morocco 2 Geological 3 U.S. Survey of Canada, 601 Booth...Colorado 80225 4 Department of Civil, Geological and Mining Engineering, École Polytechnique de Montréal, P...Mississippi Valley-type deposits of the Touissit-Bou Beker district are hosted by a 25 m thick sequence of...sulfide mineralization consists principally of galena and sphalerite and occurs as open-space fillings
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1455–1484 The Touissit-Bou Beker Mississippi Valley-Type District of Northeastern Morocco: Relationships...Environnement, Faculté des Sciences, 60000 Oujda, Morocco 2 Helmholtz-Zentrum 3 Departamento Potsdam-Deutsches...Abstract The Touissit-Bou Beker Mississippi Valley-type (MVT) district of northeastern Morocco includes five...Pb-Zn-Ag deposits that produced, over a century of mining, more than 70 Mt of ore at an average grade of...sulfide mineralization consists principally of galena and sphalerite, and occurs as open-space fillings
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
minerals Article Origin of the Moroccan Touissit-Bou Beker and Jbel Bou Dahar Supergene Non-Sulfide Biomineralization...A.; et al. Origin of the Moroccan Touissit-Bou Beker and Jbel Bou Dahar Supergene Non-Sulfide Biomineralization...Sciences, University Mohammed I, Oujda 60000, Morocco; wissale.boukirou@gmail.com (W.B.); zaid.khdra@gmail... S) geochemistry, the world-class Touissit- Bou Beker and Jbel Bou Dahar Mississippi Valleytype districts...of mineable “calamine” ores in the Touissit-Bou Beker and Jbel Bou Dahar districts. Stable isotope compositions
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MEKTA STRATA-BOUND LEAD DEPOSIT, TOUISSIT-BOU BEKER DISTRICT, EASTERN MOROCCO JEAN-JACQUES DUPUYAND JEAN-CLAUDE...d'Orl•ans,45067 Orldans-C•dex, France The Touissit-Bou Beker district of strata-bound Zn- Pb depositsis hostedin...hostedin Aaleno-Bajociandolomites and localizedat the Morocco-Algeriafrontier in the Pays(Zone)desHorsts(Fig...the Mesozoic Oran Meseta,extendingfrom Taourirt (Morocco)to Tlemcen (Algeria).Localizationmapsand geologic...(Moroccco,presentlyabandoned),and Mekta and Beddiane (Morocco).Informationon the metal contents (Dupuy, 1984)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Physical Sciences, Earth and Planetary Division, 2001 Oriental Boulevard, Brooklyn, New York, NY 11235-2398,...sequence is simple and consists of dolomite-pyrite-galena-sphalerite-calcite. The mineralization is tectonically...is in equilibrium with the carbonate host rock. Galena samples have a homogeneous Pb composition with...related to orogenies. The western part of the Zn-Pb province of the Circum-Mediterranean Sea and Alpine Europe...Alpine orogeny (e.g. Morocco: Toussit-Bou Beker, Bouabdellah et al., 2015, Bou-Dahar, Rddad and Bouhlel
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mekta, a Mississippi Valley-Type Deposit, Touissit-BouBeker Region, EasternMorocco PETR RAJLICH Institute...Paleozoiedaeite baseThe dominant minerals are: galena, sphalerite, ment.The maximumthicknesses of the...anglesite,wulfenite, hydrozinLusitanian) at Bou Beker, Touissit, Beddian, and cite, andgreenockite. The Ag...to 200 m, and 80 to 200 and 500 g/metric ton of galena. 40 m, respectively.The districtrepresentspart...lies in the westernpart of an importantmining district,40 km southof Oujdain easternMorocco(84080' N
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
specimens have always been a particular love. A galena from Neudorf, Germany, for example, gets my heart...from the Agrigento mine, Agrigento, Agrigento Province, Sicily, Italy. In addition to sulfur, the Sicilian...Budd photo. Aragonite was named for the Spanish province of Aragón by Abraham Gottlieb Werner (1749–1817)...in 1790. He had mistakenly assumed this was the province in which Molina de Aragón was located. Interestingly...small crystals of aragonite to 4 mm encrusting a galena crystal is in the Smithsonian collection. Massive
Book
of Earth Sciences Mohammed Ist University Oujda Morocco ISSN 2365-0559 Mineral Resource Reviews ISBN 978-3-319-31731-1...data on diverse types of metallic deposits in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Mali, Mauritania, Egypt, Sudan...terms of regional metallogeny and potential future mining activity. The lead paper, by M. Bouabdellah and...the setting and origin of major deposits in the region, together with information on tonnages and grades...lead-zinc-silver deposits of the Tighza district of Morocco, proposing links to granite-related porphyry
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
stratabound F-Ba-(Pb-Zn) ores of Hammam Zriba (Province of Zaghouan, NE Tunisia) Nejib Jemmali a,∗ , Emmanuel...2017 Accepted 5 July 2017 Keywords: Hammam Zriba Province of Zaghouan Fluorite-barite Stratabound mineralization...The Hammam Zriba F-Ba-(Zn-Pb) ore deposit in the Province of Zaghouan in north-eastern Tunisia is hosted...of fluorite and barite with minor sphalerite and galena. Calcite is the main gangue mineral. Two types...conditions of restricted sulfate supply. ␦34 S of galena and sphalerite in lenticluar and intra-karstic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
deposits: an isotope study of galena in the Upper-Moulouya District (Morocco) Received: 5 March 1997 /...22 September 1997 Abstract The Upper Moulouya district displays three main types of lead ores in the...Terre, Faculte des Sciences, Rabat, Morocco Introduction Morocco has been the most important lead producer...the Hercynian chain (Fig. 1), the Upper Moulouya district is an exceptional area in which to study the relationship...contains one of the largest concentrations of lead in Morocco, with a total output of more than one million metric
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
88 gm/cc ‘when pure. This is almost as dense as galena, but only rarely is wulfenite in such large compact...deposits still produce from underground workings. The district is close to the common boundary of Austria, Italy...countries. The primary ore mineralogy is simple; galena [PbS] and sphalerite [ZnS] were deposited at about...well as hemimorphite [Zn,Si,O,(OH),-H,O] . The galena was altered to cerussite [PbCO,] and anglesite...lead in its composition comes from the abundant galena destroyed by oxidizing ground water; the molybdenum
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
largest copper resource in the western Anti-Atlas (Morocco). Tizert resources are now estimated to be 56,820...carbonates, has been described from the area of Bou CaĂŻd (Ouarsenis) in Algeria [4]. The supergene minerals...remnants of galena and sphalerite in variable proportions. The supergene enrichment at Bou CaĂŻd is related...minerals and traces of germanium in the Aha Hills region (North-Western Botswana) and was studied by Mondillo...sulphides. The study on the Touissit-Bou Beker and Jbel Bou Dahar (Morocco) supergene ores [6] is considered
Journal (issue)
Dietrich and R. Bode 323 Vanadinite from Touissit, Morocco, and comments on endlichite by J. S. White...Roman, C/z£vei/i deposits of jf v l t h e Ems district in West Germany have yielded over 50 mineral species...The ore-carrying system which comprises the Ems district is known as the Ems-Braubach belt. It consists...areas and 21 shafts have been developed in the Ems district. The most important of these are the Silberkaute... Figure 1. Location of the Ems district in Ger­ many. Figure 2. The Ems district, Rheinland-Pfalz, West Germany
Book
.. Asni Azegour • • Beni-Tajjite Blefda · · • Bou Azz.er .- = ~ - -· . :· .. :·· -: ::·:<.: SB...-. ·. :} 68 · - 72· - ·: ·:. ,-i s ·:_· · : Bou Skour · EI Hammam Ghar el Anz Gourrama Haute Moulouya...ALGERIEN ouit -Ag-Cu) 200 Ion erwertung N (Au) Bou Azzer (Co-Ni-As-Au-Ag) A 100 km D D proterozoisches...marokkanischen ses Buches die äußerst mineralreiche Region in Nordafrika nicht wiedergeben. Mineralien aus...freundlicher junger Mann eine schönen Auswahl von Bou Azzer-Mineralstufen an. 12 Prachtvoll anzusehen
Journal (issue)
various colonies as well, specifically to aid the mining community in exploiting much needed natural resources:...Australia (1896). To provide training in mining and metallurgy, Mining Schools were opened at Ballarat and...mineral collections, some of them built by miners and mining officials. In the 1840s the copper deposits at...famous crocoite deposits near Dundas. All of this mining activity throughout the country yielded a bonanza...Wallaroo as well as excel- lent specimens from early mining at Broken Hill and precious opals from South Australian
Catalog/List
Avenue, 17th Floor • Dallas, Texas 75219 Design District Annex • 1518 Slocum Street • Dallas, Texas 75207...2008 Heritage Auctions, Inc. Heritage Design District Annex 15404 Natural History Specialist Steve...Santa Maria do Jetiba, Espirito Santo, Southeast Region, Brazil Smokey scepter Quartz with extreme development...QUARTZ ON QUARTZ Diamantina, Minas Gerais, Southeast Region, Brazil Double-terminated, water clear Quartz crystal...JAPAN-LAW TWIN Pentadora, Capilla District, Castrovirreyna Province, Huancavelica Department, Peru Over
Journal (issue)
(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...Arizona mineral occurrences. Blake is best known as a mining geologist, both in the U.S. and overseas; he published...geologist, journal editor and proprietor, mining engineer and mining consultant, educator and administrator...where ores from the various mines of tbe Silver District were treated. The now-famous Red Cloud rnine was
Book (volume)
the opening of our gallery in the Chelsea Art District of NYC. Presenting fine minerals among the world’s...Amethyst (scepter) Goboboseb Mts., Brandberg, Erongo Region, Namibia, 60 (on Quartz) Jackson Crossroads, Wilkes... Georgia, 2-3 Anglesite Touissit Dist., Jerada Prov., Oriental Reg., Morocco, 48-49 Apatite (with Bikitaite)...Gachala, Guavio-Guateque Mining Dist., Boyaca Dept., Colombia, 48-49 Fluorite (and Galena) Heights Mine, Weardale...Shattuckite), Omaue Mine, Kaokoveld Plateau, Kunene region, Namibia, 45 Microlite (on Lepidolite) Paprok,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
etc., begin to crystallize out new compounds. The region of newly formed com­ pounds is called the oxidized...similar chemically, so lead and zinc sulfides—such as galena and sphalerite—are often associated with primary...productivity. Detailed descriptions of both these mining districts are readily available in the mineralogical...dif­ ferences in rainfall (even in the same mining district or geo­ logic terrane), time involved, subsequent...time Tsumeb had not yet hit its full stride, and Morocco, now a premier source of crystal­ lized azurite
Catalog/List
many of the miners working the Arizona copper district, and for years had been purchasing specimens directly...a variety of rare micro’s including Sphalerite, Galena, Calcite, Manganbabingtonite, Maganaxinite, and...#3 **MORE GREAT NEW SPECIMENS** AZURITE; Bou Beker, Morocco: Nice colorful specimens ranging in size...reopened by the Kennecott Copper Company, and while mining, an area of world class Bornite and Chalcocite...is trying to get one of the multi-million dollar mining companies to add specimen collecting and selling
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
soon became familiar with the crystal forms of the galena, barite, and calcite specimens found there in the...Panasqueira mines, Panasqueira, CovilhĂŁ, Castelo Branco district, Portugal. was, without doubt, one of the greatest... West Cumberland iron field, North and Western Region (Cumberland), Cumbria, England. Figure 5 (above)...Panasqueira mines, Panasqueira, CovilhĂŁ, Castelo Branco district, Portugal. Downloaded by [University of Birmingham]...Samson mine, Saint Andreasberg, Saint Andreasberg district, Harz Mountains, Lower Saxony, Germany. Figure
Report (issue)
possible to designate the individual mines of which a district is composed but rather that the geological conditions...conditions from one mine to another within the district are so generally the same that what is said of...(in the United States and Canada) by state or province. The 150 bibliographies listed in the table of...Canadian Institute of Mining*and| Metallurgye a. 12ers ee ett elt hanes Engineering and Mining Journal.........Features (Book)....................+-4..-Canadian: Mining Journal ssi elora fs aeent-< sia tac nes etare
Journal (issue)
there; the first claims were staked in 1894 and mining soon commenced. Eventually over two dozen mines...scalenohedral calcite crystals. The Terlingua mercury district, with a few smaller, adjacent districts in Texas...cutting coarse-grained reddish granites of the hilly region thereabouts, known geologically as the Llano Uplift...are similar to those found in Sicily. Sadly, the mining method does not allow the preservation of specimens...his mineral operations in Mexico, especially the mining of black andradite garnets. Tom dealt prirnarily
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
silverbearing zoned sphalerite II associated with galena, crystallized from a cyclic influx of low-temperature...and calcarenit e of Unit 8 Zoned sphalerite II, galena, pyrite, marcasite Early Kimmeridgian to Tith...The sulphide paragenesis consists of sphalerite, galena, pyrite and marcasite. Sphaler ite is predominant...13). The sphalerite II is closely associated with galena, with the presence of euhedral and in places skeletal...(max. 1500 ppm) have been detected locally. The galena associated with sphalerite II does not contain
Journal (issue)
(details on page 4) In this issue … Anglesite Touissit, Ouijda-Angad Prefecture Photo: Bob Cooke. Mineral...degradation of galena or other lead ores. Sometimes, this chemical reaction is incomplete, leaving galena inclusions...gray or translucent. In other cases, anglesite and galena may be banded. Since it is a secondary mineral...after galena or, less frequently, cerussite. Anglesite crystals, notably the ones from Morocco and Namibia... The Mineral Newsletter Anglesite from Touissit, Morocco. Photo: Bob Cooke. The specimens I’ve seen
 
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