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


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Aragonite
Formula:CaCO3
Habit:needles
Colour:colorless, white
Abundance at site:Common
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Visually Identified
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Aragonite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Bou Skour Mine, Bou Skour mining district, Agdz Cercle, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:680874
Long-form Identifier:1:3:680874:7
GUID (UUID V4):6a206b3b-80b8-48b3-b07f-062a7fb83fe5
Nearest other occurrences of Aragonite
19.6km (12.2 miles) Agoulzi Mine, Bou Skour mining district, Agdz Cercle, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco
58.2km (36.1 miles) Agoudal Mines, Tansifte Caïdat, Agdz Cercle, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco
60.0km (37.3 miles) Ightem Mine (Irhtem Mine), Ightem, Tansifte Caïdat, Agdz Cercle, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco
64.1km (39.8 miles) Tamdrost Mine, Tamdrost, 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
66.6km (41.4 miles) Aghbar Mine, Aghbar, Tansifte Caïdat, Agdz Cercle, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco
66.9km (41.6 miles) Aghbar, Tansifte Caïdat, Agdz Cercle, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco
72.2km (44.9 miles) Imiter mine, Imiter mining district, Tinghir Cercle, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco
74.0km (46.0 miles) Vein No. 7, Bou Azzer Mine, Ouisselsate Caïdat, Amerzgane Cercle, Ouarzazate Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco
75.1km (46.7 miles) Igoudrane mine, Imiter mining district, Tinghir Cercle, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco
References
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.................... 211 by Richard V. Gaines Morocco M ineralogy......................................on a label when additional details (such as mine, district or county) are easily obtained. Unlike chem­...this esti­ mate, for the great Michigan copper district has pro­ duced 5,400,000 tons of copper having...that the first exploration of the Lake Superior region was undertaken by the United States Government...Gen. Walter Cunningham, the U.S. mineral agent, to mine the section of land on which the boulder rested
Catalog/List
intergrown on matrix . 2x1t-" , £S . SOp 8 . ARAGONITE . Cabe zon de l a Sal , Santande" Spa i n . Choice...;;11 . 00 . Spec i men 0 : 3x1tx 1t" , D.2Sp 9. ARAGONITE . l~ olina de Ar ag on , Spa in . (type locality)...i men. 5x 2£x1-t " , 1:14 . 00 14 . AZURITE . Bou-Skour , - Joel Sa rhrp , ~10 ro cc o. Sh8rp br ight....00 15. AZUR ITE. Kerrouchen , At l as Mts. , Morocco. Sharp deep lus trous blue tabular crystal -t"...50p 1G. BARYTES . l'lib l a dEm , Atlas Mts . , Morocco. Lust rous - creamy to light pinkish agg regates
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organisations, 81-30 = Lurgi provides modern mining technology Seas = : = ~~ === based on 100... convert, refine and treat whatever you want to mine. From the initial evaluation and planning to the...plants, Lurgi covers the full spectrum of modern mining technology. If you would like further details,...Lebanon 29 31 8 Libya 32 35 9 10 Mauritania Morocco 11 12 Saudi Arabia Somalia 13. Sudan 9 36...branch of the Process Industries, from tin mining production, you can benefit from reading International
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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...square prismatic xtls. 3x3x1-?", £30.00. 22. ARAGONITE(Pseudo Hexagonal). Molina d'Aragon,Spain. Translucent
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the description of the species nominates Socrates mine, Sonoma County, California, as the type locality... Aerugite (Neotype) BM 1963,00481 South Terras mine, St-Stephen-in-Brannel, Cornwall, England R.J. Davis...34. Afwillite (Cotype) BM 1925,00080 Dutoitspan mine, Kimberley, South Africa J. Parry and F. E. Wright...Agardite (Cotype) BM 1978,00024 Bou Skour mine, Bou Azzer, Jbel Sarho, Morocco J.E. Dietrich, M. Orliac &...199. Apachite (Cotype) BM 1980, 00532 Christmas Mine, Gila Co., Arizona, USA F.P. Cesbron & S.A. Williams
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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
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d a Hill, T a n za n ia • ref: • Chinkuashih mine, Keelung, T aiw an • 4x5 $ 5 0 .0 0 , 2x3 $ 2 0...Paul B. Moore "The History of Colombian Emerald Mining" by Tomas Feininger "Second Occurrence of Benstonite"...scapolite) Russell, New York (danburite) Silver District, Yuma County, Arizona (vanadinite) Trumbull, Connecticut...undescribed new ones. His tabulation includes the mine or mines in which the mineral ap­ peared, and is...6% muscovite, and Foote Mineral Company spodumene mine, Kings 1% other minerals. The quartz has an unusual
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just recently and we have made ar­ rangements to mine all that may be in the deposit. At the present we...Photomicrograph of gypsum crystals from the Cornwall Iron Mine, Lebanon County, Pennsyl­ vania. The entire duster... Winthrop was active in the development of the mining industry in both Massachusetts and Connecticut...Connecticut, and brought about the first commercial iron mining and smelting operation in this country at Saugus...long time after, there was also a thriving iron mining and iron smelting industry in Mas­ sachusetts and
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VARALLO VAL SESIA ex miniera ILMENITE-ROZENITE-ARAGONITE-GESSO-CALCOPIRITECLORITE-LAUMONTITE-PENTLANDITE-PIRROTITE...ROZENITE-NICHELESAIDRITE-JAROSITEMELANTERITE-ARAGONITE-CLORITE-CRISOTILO-GESSO-GOETHITELAUMONTITE-TA...volta, scoperto nella zona mineraria cuprifera di Bou-Skour, Quazazate in Marocco, “località tipo” per il...ORTOCLASIO, QUARZO ed EPIDOTO, mentre dal distretto di Bou Azzer arrivano grandi cristalli pseudocubici di PIRITE...Emilio in Cantabria e grandi monocristalli di ARAGONITE di Minglanilla. E poi ancora ARGENTO arborescente
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articles of interest to mineralogi tl. collectors, and mining historians. Contributions or suggestions for articles...ylite)on romanechite, 90 mmtall,fromthe DryGill Mine,CaldbeckFells,Cumbria.Thisspecimenwas sold to the...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...living memory. Redburn Mine furnished large ccrussite groups. Blackdene Mine was the source of remarkable
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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
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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
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
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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
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(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...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 ...coating fractures in sandstone at the Fuemrol No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah; also sparsely
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(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...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;...lode, Summit County, and in the Cripple Creek district. It is also found in Canada; Mexico; Bolivia;
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ber-D ecem ber 1977 ISSUE! TourmalineGolconda mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil SHOWS Sul/urPerticara, Romagna...U E S t AVETltlB 0)A C L PyromorphiteWheatley mine, Hours: Wed-Sat. 10-5 Sunday 12-5 [evenings by...E id a h l M in e ra lo g y o f th e Cham pion Mine, W h ite M o u n ta in s , C a lifo r n ia .......mineralogist of California. He headed the state mining bureau from 1880 to 1886 and his contributions...a l i f o r n i a , ________ -a Rhar e l Anz, Morocco MINERALS UNLIMITED 1724 University Avenue, Berkeley
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In the shafts and tunnels of a sixteenth-century mine INTRODUCTION arabic^groffcvinditaris.f} norrafludd9...as a less common orthorhombic mineral called aragonite. Most carbonates are comparatively soft and soluble...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...are particularly common in varieties of quartz. Aragonite may replace copper, clay minerals may replace
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example, calcite CaCOg (14.1.1.1) has a polymorph aragonite (14.1.3.1), while vaterite (14.1.2.1) has yet...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
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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...systeme orthorhombique: goethite, marcasite, aragonite, peridots, soufre (fig. 50). Facies tres variables
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threefold symmetry to the crystals 20 nature aragonite. soft and Most soluble carbonates are in...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...particularly common in varieties of quartz. Aragonite may replace copper, clay minerals may replace...walking and for work in such places as quarries and mine dumps. The second requirement is for old, expendable
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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.
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K(U02)As04*3H20, Tet. Vitreous yellow. Fuemrole mine, Temple Mt., Emery Co., Utah, USA. H= 2-3, Djjj=...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=...*21120, Mon. Vitreous colorless, white. Dutoitspan mine, Kimberley, South Africa. H= 4.5, Djjj= 2.630, D(
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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
 
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