Reference Specimens / Morocco / Fabre Minerals

This page provides a selection of the specimens that have passed through the Fabre Minerals website and, due to their quality,
rarity, or significance as specimens from interesting locations, have been preserved as reference specimens in #MVM

Touissit Azurite

Azurite

TC120MT: Brilliant Azurite crystal with a very vivid color and a habit between tabular and short prismatic, with polycrystalline growths on the faces.
Touissit, Touissit District, Jerada Province, Oriental Region Morocco

Specimen size: 2.8 × 2.6 × 1.7 cm = 1.10” × 1.02” × 0.67”

Azurite with Malachite

NP98AE8: A group of slightly divergent, doubly terminated, prismatic Azurite crystals, one of them clearly dominant. They are very sharp, bright, have a deep blue color and on matrix with fanlike clusters of finely fibrous Malachite. Spectacularly aesthetic.
Touissit, Touissit District, Jerada Province, Oriental Region Morocco

Specimen size: 3 × 2.5 × 2.6 cm = 1.18” × 0.98” × 1.02”

Main crystal size: 2.4 × 1.5 cm = 0.94” × 0.59”

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Azurite with Malachite

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LV47AK0: Group of doubly terminated crystals of Azurite with an elongated habit, very sharp faces and edges, complex terminations, very bright colors and partially coated by Malachite after Azurite. The sample is from the Philippe Morelon collection (number 1011) whose label, which includes more information on the back, will be sent to the buyer.
Touissit Mine, Shaft IX (Puit IX), Touissit, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region Morocco (1990)

Specimen size: 4.2 × 4 × 2.2 cm = 1.65” × 1.57” × 0.87”

Main crystal size: 3.7 × 1.2 cm = 1.46” × 0.47”

Former collection of Philippe Morelon

Azurite

EF77AA3: Very sharp single crystal, very rich in terminal faces, very bright and with strong transparency along the lateral edges. An excellent Moroccan classic.
Touissit, Touissit District, Jerada Province, Oriental Region Morocco

Specimen size: 4.3 × 1.3 × 0.7 cm = 1.69” × 0.51” × 0.28”

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Azurite with Dolomite

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EB96AK5: Group of doubly terminated Azurite crystals, one of them clearly dominant and very aerial, with very well defined faces and edges, with polycrystalline growths and excellent terminations. On a matrix of rhombohedral Dolomite crystals.
The specimen is from the Christian Mondeilh collection (No. D / 1982), whose label we will send to the buyer.
Touissit Mine, Shaft IX (Puit IX), Touissit, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region Morocco (±1982)

Specimen size: 4.5 × 2.5 × 1.9 cm = 1.77” × 0.98” × 0.75”

Main crystal size: 3.7 × 1 cm = 1.46” × 0.39”

Former collection of Christian Mondeilh

Azurite with Malachite, Cerussite and Dolomite

ER37AA3: Group of short prismatic Azurite crystals, one of them clearly dominant and doubly terminated, with polycrystalline surfaces on terminations and small Cerussite crystals on their surfaces. Some of the Azurite crystals are partially pseudomorphed by Malachite.
Touissit, Touissit District, Jerada Province, Oriental Region Morocco

Specimen size: 4.5 × 2.6 × 2.6 cm = 1.77” × 1.02” × 1.02”

Main crystal size: 2.4 × 2.3 cm = 0.94” × 0.91”

Azurite on Dolomite

EZ92: Just in time before the closing of Touissit mines, we managed to obtain this superb Azurite specimen. Crystals standing free on their white Dolomite matrix. The sharp crystal form, luster, color and perfection make this specimen one of the best of this size for this mine.
Touissit Mine, Shaft IX (Puit IX), Touissit, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region Morocco (05/2002)

Specimen size: 4.7 × 4 × 2.8 cm = 1.85” × 1.57” × 1.10”

Azurite with Malachite

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EB15AL8: Azurite crystal with very marked parallel growths and good terminal faces, very bright, much more translucent than usual for this deposit and with a very vivid color. On matrix, accompanied by some remnants of Malachite. The locality is one of the great world classics for Azurite.
Touissit, Touissit District, Jerada Province, Oriental Region Morocco (±1975)

Specimen size: 5.2 × 3.4 × 2.1 cm = 2.05” × 1.34” × 0.83”

Main crystal size: 4.7 × 3.4 cm = 1.85” × 1.34”

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Azurite

MX90S9: Group of very sharp crystals, some of them doubly terminated, extraordinarily bright and of a very deep color with strong transparency under a strong light. The group, on matrix, has a strong quality.
Touissit Mine, Shaft IX (Puit IX), Touissit, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region Morocco

Specimen size: 5.3 × 3.3 × 3.8 cm = 2.09” × 1.30” × 1.50”

Main crystal size: 2.1 × 1 cm = 0.83” × 0.39”

Azurite

JA10F3: A prismatic crystal that just looks like the typical ones from Touissit, but a more detailed check shows the unusual richness of the termination, with lots of faces. Definition, brilliance, and color are the outstanding features of this sample.
Touissit, Touissit District, Jerada Province, Oriental Region Morocco (1993)

Specimen size: 5.5 × 2 × 1.4 cm = 2.17” × 0.79” × 0.55”

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Azurite with Dolomite

NP47AN0: Elongated Azurite crystals, one of them clearly dominant and doubly terminated, lustrous, on matrix with small white rhombohedral Dolomite crystals.
The specimen comes from the Ignacio Gaspar Sintes collection (number AZU-6), whose catalogue entry we will send to the buyer.
Touissit Mine, Shaft IX (Puit IX), Touissit, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region Morocco (1994)

Specimen size: 5.5 × 4 × 3 cm = 2.17” × 1.57” × 1.18”

Main crystal size: 4.1 × 1.3 cm = 1.61” × 0.51”

Former collection of Ignacio Gaspar

Azurite with Malachite

EK89AL3: Doubly terminated Azurite crystal, very sharp, with parallel growths, bright color, and crystals of primary Malachite.
The specimen comes from the Christian Mondeilh collection, whose label we will send to the buyer.

Touissit Mine, Shaft IX (Puit IX), Touissit, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region Morocco (±1981)

Specimen size: 5.7 × 2.3 × 1.6 cm = 2.24” × 0.91” × 0.63”

Former collection of Christian Mondeilh

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Azurite with Malachite

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TM27T0: Parallel growths of very well defined crystals on matrix. They are very bright and have a very deep color, with transparent reflections on the edges. A magnificent sample from the cavity of 1979, the first big find that announced the Touissit Mine to the mineral world.
Touissit, Touissit District, Jerada Province, Oriental Region Morocco (05-06/1979)

Specimen size: 5.8 × 5.4 × 2.2 cm = 2.28” × 2.13” × 0.87”

Main crystal size: 3.2 × 1.7 cm = 1.26” × 0.67”

Doubly terminated Azurite with Malachite and Dolomite

NJ89AM5: Doubly terminated crystal of Azurite, very sharp and with well defined crystal forms. With coatings of Malachite, on a matrix with coatings of pinkish rhombohedral Dolomite crystals. The specimen, a Moroccan classic, comes from the collection of Ignacio Gaspar Sintes (number AZU-10), whose collection card we will send to the buyer.
Touissit, Touissit District, Jerada Province, Oriental Region Morocco

Specimen size: 6 × 4.5 × 3 cm = 2.36” × 1.77” × 1.18”

Former collection of Ignacio Gaspar

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Azurite with Malachite after Azurite

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TT66AM8: Group of very aerial Azurite crystals, rich in polycrystalline growths, with good terminations, with a very deep color and totally or partially pseudomorphed by Malachite in some areas of the specimen.
Touissit, Touissit District, Jerada Province, Oriental Region Morocco

Specimen size: 7.3 × 4.7 × 4.2 cm = 2.87” × 1.85” × 1.65”

Main crystal size: 7 × 2.6 cm = 2.76” × 1.02”

Azurite on Smithsonite

NB74H3: Magnificent crystal of very sharp and bright faces and edges and deep blue color, with clearer transparent reflections. It is important to note the uncommon presence of paragenetic globular Smithsonite on the matrix.
Touissit Mine, Shaft IX (Puit IX), Touissit, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region Morocco (02/1995)

Specimen size: 7.5 × 7.2 × 4.3 cm = 2.95” × 2.83” × 1.69”

Main crystal size: 2.6 × 1.2 cm = 1.02” × 0.47”

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Malachite after Azurite

E8VI7: Malachite has replaced completely the prismatic crystals of the original Azurite, while perfectly preserving their esthetic shape, on a matrix of Limonite.
Touissit Mine, Shaft IX (Puit IX), Touissit, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region Morocco (1997)

Specimen size: 3.9 × 2 × 2.3 × cm = 1.54” × 0.79” × 0.91”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 1 cm = 0.43” × 0.39”

Azurite with Malachite and Dolomite

PG94AL5: Parallel growths of Azurite crystals with good terminations, with good luster, deep color, on matrix, with botryoidal growths of Malachite.
This piece comes from the Rodolfo Pigrau collection, whose catalogue entry we will send to the buyer.
Touissit, Touissit District, Jerada Province, Oriental Region Morocco

Specimen size: 10.4 × 7.8 × 3.5 cm = 4.09” × 3.07” × 1.38”

Main crystal size: 5.5 × 1.5 cm = 2.17” × 0.59”

Former collection of Rodolfo Pigrau

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Malachite after Azurite with Azurite

LP28AK4: Very aerial aggregate of profiled crystals of Malachite pseudomorphs after Azurite, plus with very bright blue Azurite crystals. The sample is from the Philippe Morelon collection (No. 858), whose label we will send to the buyer.
Touissit Mine, Shaft IX (Puit IX), Touissit, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region Morocco

Specimen size: 4.4 × 4.2 × 2 cm = 1.73” × 1.65” × 0.79”

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 0.5 cm = 0.63” × 0.20”

Former collection of Philippe Morelon

Malachite after Azurite

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TA87AK4: Polycrystalline growth of an Azurite crystal completely pseudomorphed by Malachite with satin luster and very deep and uniform color. The crystal sits extraordinarily well implanted on the matrix in which there are also more Malachite pseudomorphs after Azurite crystals. The specimen is from the Philippe Morelon collection (No. 144), whose label we will send to the buyer.
Touissit Mine, Shaft IX (Puit IX), Touissit, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region Morocco (1981)

Specimen size: 7.2 × 5 × 5.8 cm = 2.83” × 1.97” × 2.28”

Main crystal size: 6 × 2.5 cm = 2.36” × 0.98”

Former collection of Philippe Morelon

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TJR64AN4: Very aerial group of sharp Azurite crystals with a prismatic habit and marked parallel growths. The crystals are totally or partially doubly terminated, translucent, very lustrous, on matrix.
A fine Moroccan classic, from a classic locality for the species, that we will send in its original Perky box from the Robert J. (Bob) Noble collection, which also contains a label stating that it was previously in the Sullivan collection.
Zellidja Mine, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region Morocco

Specimen size: 2.4 × 1.5 × 1 cm = 0.94” × 0.59” × 0.39”

Main crystal size: 1.7 × 0.2 cm = 0.67” × 0.08”

Former collection of Bob Noble

Azurite

EA60L9: A floater formed by a terminated group of Azurite crystals, with curious curvatures. Really good color and excellent luster. The specimen is from a recent find at this mine relatively near to Touissit, that hasn't produced significant samples in the last twenty years.
Bou Beker, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region Morocco (03/2008)

Specimen size: 3.5 × 1.9 × 1.2 cm = 1.38” × 0.75” × 0.47”

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Azurite with Malachite

XM90EP: Floater group of Azurite crystals with distinct polycrystalline surfaces, bright luster and a very vivid color, with Malachite.
Bou Beker, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region Morocco (03/2008)

Specimen size: 3.7 × 3 × 2.9 cm = 1.46” × 1.18” × 1.14”

Azurite

EF12T6: Very aerial floater group of very elongated crystals with curvatures and twisters. Intense color, good luster and excellent quality for the locality.
Bou Beker, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region Morocco (03/2008)

Specimen size: 3.8 × 2.8 × 2 cm = 1.50” × 1.10” × 0.79”

Main crystal size: 2.2 × 0.9 cm = 0.87” × 0.35”

Azurite

EC61L9: Group of Azurite crystals showing curved faces and edges, on a small Limonite matrix. Really good color and excellent luster. The specimen is from a recent find at this mine relatively near to Touissit, that hasn't produced significant samples in the last twenty years.
Bou Beker, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region Morocco (03/2008)

Specimen size: 4 × 2.6 × 1.9 cm = 1.57” × 1.02” × 0.75”

Azurite

EZ62T6: Group of short crystals with abundant recrystallizations, small parallel growths and partially coated by Malachite. Intense color, good luster, and excellent quality for the locality.
Bou Beker, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region Morocco (03/2008)

Specimen size: 4.8 × 3.8 × 3.4 cm = 1.89” × 1.50” × 1.34”

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Azurite with Malachite

EE63L9: Group of prismatic crystals with parallel growth and several recrystalizations, partially covered by Malachite. The specimen is from a recent find at this mine relatively near to Touissit, that hasn't produced significant samples in the last twenty years.
Bou Beker, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region Morocco (03/2008)

Specimen size: 5.2 × 4.2 × 2.8 cm = 2.05” × 1.65” × 1.10”

Azurite with Malachite

EF63L9: Group of prismatic crystals with parallel growth and several recrystalizations, partially covered by Malachite and with an excellent color. The specimen is from a recent find at this mine relatively near to Touissit, that hasn't produced significant samples in the last twenty years.
Bou Beker, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region Morocco (03/2008)

Specimen size: 5.9 × 4.6 × 2.8 cm = 2.32” × 1.81” × 1.10”

Azurite with Malachite

EM16T6: Group of short elongated crystals sharper than usual with many recrystallizations and small parallel growths. Deep blue color, intense luster, and in matrix with Malachite. Excellent quality for the locality.
Bou Beker, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region Morocco (03/2008)

Specimen size: 6 × 5.5 × 2.9 cm = 2.36” × 2.17” × 1.14”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 0.8 cm = 0.59” × 0.31”

Azurite with Mimetite and Wulfenite

TA46Z5: Drusy growths of small lenticular Azurite crystals with a very deep color, extraordinarily bright, with small greenish-yellow Mimetite coatings and laminar yellow Wulfenite crystals. It came from a small local find in an area near Bou Bekker.
Bou Beker, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region Morocco

Specimen size: 6.6 × 4.1 × 2.4 cm = 2.60” × 1.61” × 0.94”

Main crystal size: 0.5 × 0.4 cm = 0.20” × 0.16”

Azurite with Malachite

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NC96K6: Excellent sample from Bou Beker, a locality that you mustn’t confuse with Touissit. It is a group of crystals, some of them doubly terminated and better defined than usual for the locality, on a Malachite matrix.
Bou Beker, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region Morocco (1988)

Specimen size: 6.9 × 5 × 3.8 cm = 2.72” × 1.97” × 1.50”

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 0.6 cm = 0.71” × 0.24”

Azurite with Malachite

EH26L9: Prismatic crystals of Azurite with very sharp faces and edges. On a small matrix with Malachite with an excellent color. The specimen is from a recent find at this mine relatively near to Touissit, that hasn't produced significant samples in the last twenty years.
Bou Beker, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region Morocco (03/2008)

Specimen size: 7.7 × 4.3 × 3 cm = 3.03” × 1.69” × 1.18”

Malachite after Azurite

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TF89Z7: Aggregate of Azurite crystals that have an unusual morphology for the locality. They are blocky, very large and have a very good crystalline development. They are partially coated, and in some areas pseudomorphed, by Malachite. On the back on the sample there are vivid blue, roughly defined, Azurite crystals typical of Bou-Bekker, this fact proving its source.
Bou Beker, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region Morocco

Specimen size: 7.8 × 6 × 4.5 cm = 3.07” × 2.36” × 1.77”

Main crystal size: 5.2 × 3.7 cm = 2.05” × 1.46”

Brochantite with Malachite

NQ6AM5: Short prismatic crystals of Brochantite, larger than others known from this locally, many of them doubly terminated, with good luster and a very deep green color. On matrix, associated with Malachite of a lighter green color. The specimen is from the Pedro Hernández collection.
Bou Beker, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region Morocco

Specimen size: 5 × 4.1 × 2.8 cm = 1.97” × 1.61” × 1.10”

Main crystal size: 0.4 × 0.2 cm = 0.16” × 0.08”

Former collection of Pedro Hernández

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Brochantite with Malachite

TV14AN2: Short prismatic crystals of Brochantite, many of them doubly terminated and of a good size for what is known in the locality. Translucent, with very bright luster and a very deep green color, on matrix with Malachite of a lighter green color.
Bou Beker, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region Morocco

Specimen size: 6.7 × 5 × 2.8 cm = 2.64” × 1.97” × 1.10”

Main crystal size: 0.4 × 0.2 cm = 0.16” × 0.08”

Former collection of Enric Vintró

Cerussite with Malachite

EY11Q7: A novelty at Ste. Marie 2010. White elongated crystals of pearly luster implanted on groups of acicular crystals of Malachite with a silky luster and a very deep and uniform color. From a recent find in Bou Beker where this association hasn’t been found before.
Bou Beker, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region Morocco (05/2010)

Specimen size: 3.5 × 2.3 × 1.8 cm = 1.38” × 0.91” × 0.71”

Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.1 cm = 0.28” × 0.04”

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Cerussite with Malachite

ER86Q7: A novelty at Ste. Marie 2010. White elongated crystals of pearly luster in parallel growths, forming convoluted columns, implanted on groups of acicular crystals of Malachite with a silky luster and a very deep and uniform color. From a recent find in Bou Beker where this association hasn’t been found before.
Bou Beker, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region Morocco (05/2010)

Specimen size: 6.5 × 5.2 × 3.3 cm = 2.56” × 2.05” × 1.30”

Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.2 cm = 0.24” × 0.08”

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Cerussite with Malachite

EQ27Q7: A novelty at Ste. Marie 2010. White elongated crystals of pearly luster in parallel growths, forming convoluted columns, implanted on groups of acicular crystals of Malachite with a silky luster and a very deep and uniform color. From a recent find in Bou Beker where this association hasn’t been found before.
This specimen was photographed and published as a novelty at the 2010 Ste. Marie Show in the magazine ‘Le Règne Minéral’ number 94, page 55.
Bou Beker, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region Morocco (05/2010)

Specimen size: 7.8 × 6.6 × 4.4 cm = 3.07” × 2.60” × 1.73”

Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.3 cm = 0.24” × 0.12”

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Galena with Sphalerite and Dolomite

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EB27AM1: A novelty at the 2020 Munich Virtual show. Cubo-octahedral crystals of Galena with very well marked polycrystalline growths, good luster, on matrix covered by rhombohedral Dolomite crystals of pale pink color. This material was practically unknown until now.
This sample has been referenced and pictured, as a novelty of Munich Virtual 2020, in the magazine 'Le Règne Minéral' number 157, January-February 2020, page 49
Zellidja Mine, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region Morocco

Specimen size: 4.7 × 2.8 × 2.1 cm = 1.85” × 1.10” × 0.83”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 1.1 cm = 0.47” × 0.43”

Galena with Dolomite

EA27AM1: A novelty at the 2020 Munich Virtual show. Cubo-octahedral Galena crystal with very well marked polycrystalline growths, good luster, on matrix covered by rhombohedral Dolomite crystals of pale pink color. This material was practically unknown until now.
Zellidja Mine, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region Morocco

Specimen size: 5.5 × 2.8 × 3.4 cm = 2.17” × 1.10” × 1.34”

Main crystal size: 2 × 2 cm = 0.79” × 0.79”

Galena with Calcite and Dolomite

EH96AM1: A novelty at the 2020 Munich Virtual show. Cubo-octahedral crystals of Galena with very distinct polycrystalline growths, good luster, on a matrix covered by rhombohedral Dolomite crystals with a pale pink color, and small white Calcite crystals. This material was practically unknown until now.
Zellidja Mine, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region Morocco

Specimen size: 5.6 × 4 × 4.9 cm = 2.20” × 1.57” × 1.93”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.7 cm = 0.39” × 0.28”

Calcite fluorescent long & short UV

Galena with Dolomite

ED96AM1: A novelty at the 2020 Munich Virtual show. Cubo-octahedral Galena crystal with very well marked polycrystalline growths and good luster, on matrix covered by pale pink, rhombohedral Dolomite crystals. This material was practically unknown until now.
Zellidja Mine, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region Morocco

Specimen size: 5.8 × 4.9 × 2.4 cm = 2.28” × 1.93” × 0.94”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 1 cm = 0.47” × 0.39”

Galena with Dolomite

SM220EVK: A novelty at Munich Virtual 2020: Cubo-octahedral crystals of Galena with very marked and lustrous polycrystalline growths, on a matrix coated by rhombohedral Dolomite crystals of pale pink color. This material was practically unknown until now.
Zellidja Mine, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region Morocco

Specimen size: 6.2 × 5.8 × 3.4 cm = 2.44” × 2.28” × 1.34”

Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.6 cm = 0.28” × 0.24”

Galena with Dolomite and Calcite

EE88AM1: A novelty at the 2020 Munich Virtual show. Cubo-octahedral crystals of Galena with very well marked polycrystalline growths, good luster, on matrix, covered by pale pink, rhombohedral Dolomite crystals. This material was practically unknown until now.
Zellidja Mine, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region Morocco

Specimen size: 6.7 × 3.7 × 5.9 cm = 2.64” × 1.46” × 2.32”

Main crystal size: 2 × 2 cm = 0.79” × 0.79”

Calcite fluorescent long & short UV

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Galena with Sphalerite and Dolomite

EJ37AM1: A novelty at the 2020 Munich Virtual show. Cubo-octahedral crystals of Galena with very distinct polycrystalline growths, good luster, on a matrix covered by rhombohedral Dolomite crystals with a pale pink color, and small white Calcite crystals. This material was practically unknown until now.
Zellidja Mine, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region Morocco

Specimen size: 7.8 × 3.9 × 6.4 cm = 3.07” × 1.54” × 2.52”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 1.3 cm = 0.55” × 0.51”

Galena with Sphalerite and Dolomite

EK27AM1: A novelty at the 2020 Munich Virtual show. Cubo-octahedral crystals of Galena with very distinct polycrystalline growths, good luster, on a matrix covered by rhombohedral Dolomite crystals with a pale pink color, and small white Calcite crystals. This material was practically unknown until now.
Zellidja Mine, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region Morocco

Specimen size: 8 × 7.7 × 3.6 cm = 3.15” × 3.03” × 1.42”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.8 cm = 0.39” × 0.31”

Galena with Sphalerite and Dolomite

EV76AM1: A novelty at the 2020 Munich Virtual show. Cubo-octahedral crystals of Galena with very well marked polycrystalline growths, good luster, on matrix, covered by pale pink, rhombohedral Dolomite crystals. This material was practically unknown until now.
Zellidja Mine, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region Morocco

Specimen size: 8.5 × 4.1 × 5 cm = 3.35” × 1.61” × 1.97”

Main crystal size: 0.8 × 0.8 cm = 0.31” × 0.31”

Galena With Dolomite

ET97AM5: A novelty at the Munich 2020 Virtual show. A good sized cubo-octahedral crystal of Galena with very well marked polycrystalline growths, with bright luster, on a matrix covered by pink rhombohedral Dolomite crystals. This material was practically unknown until now.
Zellidja Mine, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region Morocco

Specimen size: 11.5 × 8.8 × 3.6 cm = 4.53” × 3.46” × 1.42”

Main crystal size: 2.3 × 2 cm = 0.91” × 0.79”

Mimetite with Azurite and Wulfenite

TM62AE1: Very aerial microcrystalline growth of elongated Mimetite crystals that are bright and have a very vivid yellow color with platy Wulfenite that has the same color, plus aggregates of very bright Azurite crystals. A fine miniature, very representative of the occasional local finds in areas around Bou Bekker.
Bou Beker, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region Morocco

Specimen size: 3.1 × 2.6 × 2.2 cm = 1.22” × 1.02” × 0.87”

Main crystal size: 0.1 × 0.1 cm = 0.04” × 0.04”

Sphalerite with Dolomite

EF10AM1: A Novelty at the 2020 Munich Virtual show. Complex crystals of Sphalerite, one of them clearly dominant, with an equant habit and very well defined faces and edges, translucent, shiny, with intense red-orange reflections. On matrix covered by rhombohedral Dolomite crystals, with small Galena crystals. This material was practically unknown until now.
This sample has been referenced and pictured, as a novelty of Munich Virtual 2020, in the magazine 'Le Règne Minéral' number 157, January-February 2020, page 49
Zellidja Mine, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region Morocco

Specimen size: 2.3 × 1.9 × 1.4 cm = 0.91” × 0.75” × 0.55”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 1 cm = 0.43” × 0.39”

Sphalerite with Dolomite

ED11AM1: A novelty at the 2020 Munich Virtual show. Complex crystals of Sphalerite with equant habit and very well defined faces and edges, translucent, shiny, and with intense orange-red reflections. On matrix covered by rhombohedral Dolomite crystals. This material was practically unknown until now.
Zellidja Mine, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region Morocco

Specimen size: 4.2 × 3.2 × 2 cm = 1.65” × 1.26” × 0.79”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.7 cm = 0.39” × 0.28”

Sphalerite with Dolomite

EC66AM1: A novelty at the 2020 Munich Virtual show. Complex crystal of Sphalerite with equidimensional habit. With abundant polycrystalline growths and sharp faces and edges, translucent, shiny, on matrix, covered by pale pink rhombohedral Dolomite crystals. This material was practically unknown until now.
Zellidja Mine, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region Morocco

Specimen size: 4.7 × 4.5 × 3 cm = 1.85” × 1.77” × 1.18”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 1.5 cm = 0.59” × 0.59”

Sphalerite with Dolomite

EZ56AM1: A novelty at the 2020 Munich Virtual show. Complex crystals of Sphalerite with equant habit and very well defined faces and edges, translucent, shiny, and with intense orange-red reflections. On matrix covered by rhombohedral Dolomite crystals. This material was practically unknown until now.
Zellidja Mine, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region Morocco (±1970)

Specimen size: 5.5 × 4 × 3.9 cm = 2.17” × 1.57” × 1.54”

Main crystal size: 0.8 × 0.6 cm = 0.31” × 0.24”

Sphalerite with Dolomite

EF46AM1: A novelty at the 2020 Munich Virtual show. Complex crystals of Sphalerite with equidimensional habit and very well defined faces and edges, translucent, lustrous, on matrix, covered by pale pink, rhombohedral Dolomite crystals. This material was practically unknown until now.
Zellidja Mine, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region Morocco

Specimen size: 5.9 × 4.4 × 4.1 cm = 2.32” × 1.73” × 1.61”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 1 cm = 0.55” × 0.39”

Sphalerite with Dolomite

ET16AM1: A novelty at the 2020 Munich Virtual show. Complex crystals of Sphalerite with equidimensional habit and very well defined faces and edges, translucent, lustrous, on matrix, covered by pale pink, rhombohedral Dolomite crystals. This material was practically unknown until now.
Zellidja Mine, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region Morocco

Specimen size: 6.3 × 4.5 × 5.3 cm = 2.48” × 1.77” × 2.09”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 1.1 cm = 0.47” × 0.43”

Sphalerite on Dolomite

Fluorescent light (daylight)

EG47AM1: A novelty at the 2020 Munich Virtual show. Groups of complex Sphalerite crystals with equant habit and with very well defined faces and edges, translucent, lustrous, on a matrix covered by rhombohedral Dolomite crystals with a pale pink color. This material was practically unknown until now.
Zellidja Mine, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region Morocco

Specimen size: 7.8 × 6.6 × 3.6 cm = 3.07” × 2.60” × 1.42”

Main crystal size: 2 × 1.6 cm = 0.79” × 0.63”

Sphalerite with Dolomite

Fluorescent light (daylight)

EN96AM1: A novelty at the 2020 Munich Virtual show. Groups of complex Sphalerite crystals with equant habit and sharply defined faces and edges, translucent, lustrous, on a matrix covered by rhombohedral Dolomite crystals with a pale pink color. This material was practically unknown until now.
Zellidja Mine, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region Morocco

Specimen size: 9.4 × 8 × 3.2 cm = 3.70” × 3.15” × 1.26”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 1 cm = 0.55” × 0.39”

Sphalerite with Dolomite

Fluorescent light (daylight)

SV90EVX: New at Munich Virtual 2020: Groups of complex Sphalerite crystals with an equant habit, with well defined faces and edges, translucent and lustrous, in a matrix of rock covered entirely with pale pink rhombohedral Dolomite crystals. This material was virtually unknown until 2020.
Zellidja Mine, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region Morocco

Specimen size: 14 × 9.2 × 5.3 cm = 5.51” × 3.62” × 2.09”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.8 cm = 0.39” × 0.31”

Sphalerite with Dolomite

Fluorescent light (daylight)

TC24ERX: A novelty at Munich Virtual 2020. Complex crystals of Sphalerite with equant habit and very well defined faces and edges, translucent, with bright luster and red-orange reflections. On matrix covered by rhombohedral Dolomite crystals with an intense pink color. This material was practically unknown until now, in both the Zelidja mine itself and in the entire Touissit mining district.
Zellidja Mine, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region Morocco

Specimen size: 16.3 × 12.4 × 4.8 cm = 6.42” × 4.88” × 1.89”

Main crystal size: 2 × 1.8 cm = 0.79” × 0.71”

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