EV8AL0: Three-dimensional floater group of cubo-octahedral Pyrite crystals, lustrous, with very well defined faces and edges, growing as markedly parallel aggregates. An elegant miniature.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2017)

Specimen size: 1.7 × 1.6 × 1 cm = 0.67” × 0.63” × 0.39”

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

MLH13AN8: Polycrystalline growth of Pyrite crystals with cubic habit, very lustrous and with partial coatings of small white Quartz crystals.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (07/2020)

Specimen size: 3.1 × 2.8 × 2.1 cm = 1.22” × 1.10” × 0.83”

Main crystal size: 2.9 × 2.7 cm = 1.14” × 1.06”

ER16AF4: Aggregates of cubic Pyrite crystals with polycrystalline growths and strong curvatures. They are extraordinarily bright with iridescences and are on a Baryte matrix.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2017)

Specimen size: 5.4 × 3.5 × 3.4 cm = 2.13” × 1.38” × 1.34”

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 1.6 cm = 0.71” × 0.63”

EA13AM1: Very aerial aggregate of cubic Pyrite crystals with distinct polycrystalline growths, brilliant, and with curved faces and edges. Partially covered by small white Quartz crystals.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2020)

Specimen size: 5.4 × 5.2 × 2.8 cm = 2.13” × 2.05” × 1.10”

EFT60AO9: Obtained at Ste. Marie 2022
Polycrystalline botryoidal coatings of very sharp cubic crystals of lustrous Pyrite on a white Baryte matrix. Different from what has been known so far from this mine.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2021)

Specimen size: 6.2 × 2.6 × 3.4 cm = 2.44” × 1.02” × 1.34”

Main crystal size: 0.3 × 0.2 cm = 0.12” × 0.08”

EPQ14AO9: Obtained at Ste. Marie 2022
Polycrystalline botryoidal coatings of very sharp cubic crystals of lustrous Pyrite on a white Baryte matrix. Different from what has been known so far from this mine.
The specimen has been reviewed, photographed and published as a new discovery in the magazine ‘Mineralogical Record’ on page 663 in the volume 53, number 5, September-October 2022
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2021)

Specimen size: 6.7 × 4.8 × 3.4 cm = 2.64” × 1.89” × 1.34”

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

EXP16AO9: Obtained at Ste. Marie 2022
Polycrystalline botryoidal coatings of very sharp cubic crystals of lustrous Pyrite on a white Baryte matrix. Different from what has been known so far from this mine.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2021)

Specimen size: 6.7 × 6.4 × 4.1 cm = 2.64” × 2.52” × 1.61”

Main crystal size: 0.3 × 0.2 cm = 0.12” × 0.08”

EA27AF4: A novelty at Sainte Marie-aux-Mines 2017. Aggregates, on Baryte matrix, of very bright cubic Pyrite crystals with very well defined faces and edges and completely coating columnar growths of probably Marcassite twinned crystals.
The specimen has been reviewed, photographed and published as a novelty from Ste. Marie 2017 in the Russian magazine ‘Mineral Observer’ on page 69 in the volume 23, number 1
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2017)

Specimen size: 7.3 × 5.2 × 5.2 cm = 2.87” × 2.05” × 2.05”

Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.4 cm = 0.28” × 0.16”

ET47AM0: Very aerial group of cubic Pyrite crystals with staggered stepped faces. With brilliant luster and on a matrix of small Quartz and Calcite crystals.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2020)

Specimen size: 7.4 × 6.3 × 5.9 cm = 2.91” × 2.48” × 2.32”

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

EF96W2: A novelty at St. Marie 2012. Aggregate of cubic crystals of Pyrite with polycrystalline growths on their faces. They are very bright and have curved faces and edges and skeletal forms on the back side that reveal holes left by former crystals, probably Baryte.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (12/2011-01/2012)

Specimen size: 8.3 × 7 × 4.5 cm = 3.27” × 2.76” × 1.77”

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

EC27Y1: A novelty at St. Marie 2013. Echeloned growths of Pyrite perched on sharp casts left by preexisting thick tabular Baryte crystals that have been dissolved and subsequently replaced by a second generation of smaller colorless and transparent crystals of the same Baryte partially coating the Pyrite.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (04/2013)

Specimen size: 8.5 × 5.8 × 5 cm = 3.35” × 2.28” × 1.97”

TC140EK: Aggregate of cubic Pyrite crystals with distinct polycrystalline growths, very lustrous, with curved faces and edges.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2020)

Specimen size: 8.6 × 4.8 × 5.4 cm = 3.39” × 1.89” × 2.13”

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

ELP46AO9: Obtained at Ste. Marie 2022
Polycrystalline botryoidal coatings of very sharp cubic crystals of lustrous Pyrite on a white Baryte matrix. Different from what has been known so far from this mine.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2021)

Specimen size: 8.7 × 6.2 × 5.1 cm = 3.43” × 2.44” × 2.01”

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

ERR26AO9: Obtained at Ste. Marie 2022
Polycrystalline botryoidal coatings of very sharp cubic crystals of lustrous Pyrite on a white Baryte matrix. Different from what has been known so far from this mine.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2021)

Specimen size: 9.2 × 5.7 × 4.8 cm = 3.62” × 2.24” × 1.89”

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

MKL97AN9: Floater group of Pyrite crystals with cubic habit, very rich in polycrystalline growths and very lustrous.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (07/2020)

Specimen size: 9.3 × 6.4 × 6.2 cm = 3.66” × 2.52” × 2.44”

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 1.5 cm = 0.63” × 0.59”

ERT96AO9: Obtained at Ste. Marie 2022
Polycrystalline botryoidal coatings of very sharp cubic crystals of lustrous Pyrite on a white Baryte matrix. Different from what has been known so far from this mine.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2021)

Specimen size: 10.4 × 6 × 3.9 cm = 4.09” × 2.36” × 1.54”

Main crystal size: 0.3 × 0.2 cm = 0.12” × 0.08”

EF67Y1: A novelty at St. Marie 2013. Very aerial sample, with cubic Pyrite crystals showing rounded edges and echeloned growths perched on sharp casts left by preexisting thick tabular Baryte crystals that has been dissolved and subsequently replaced by a second generation of smaller colorless and transparent crystals of the same Baryte partially coating the Pyrite. On a matrix of white Quartz crystals.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (04/2013)

Specimen size: 10.7 × 8.3 × 7.5 cm = 4.21” × 3.27” × 2.95”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 1.2 cm = 0.59” × 0.47”

EFM16AO9: Obtained at Ste. Marie 2022
Polycrystalline botryoidal coatings of very sharp cubic crystals of lustrous Pyrite on a white Baryte matrix. Different from what has been known so far from this mine.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2021)

Specimen size: 10.4 × 6.3 × 2.6 cm = 4.09” × 2.48” × 1.02”

Main crystal size: 0.3 × 0.2 cm = 0.12” × 0.08”

ED47Y1: A novelty at St. Marie 2013. Echeloned growths of Pyrite perched on sharp casts left by preexisting thick tabular Baryte crystals that have been dissolved and subsequently replaced by a second generation of smaller colorless and transparent crystals of the same Baryte partially coating the Pyrite.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (04/2013)

Specimen size: 11.2 × 6.5 × 5.5 cm = 4.41” × 2.56” × 2.17”

EJK27AO9: Obtained at Ste. Marie 2022
Polycrystalline botryoidal coatings of very sharp cubic crystals of lustrous Pyrite on a white Baryte matrix. Different from what has been known so far from this mine.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2021)

Specimen size: 11.8 × 6 × 4 cm = 4.65” × 2.36” × 1.57”

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

TY37AB2: A novelty at Tucson 2015. Very fine radiating growths of Marcasite crystals that are extraordinarily sharp, miter-shaped, very bright and are with small laminar and transparent Baryte crystals.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (07/2014)

Specimen size: 6 × 4.4 × 3.5 cm = 2.36” × 1.73” × 1.38”

EX96AI7: Very aerial rosette growths of very sharp and strongly flattened Marcasite crystals with extreme curving, intensely bright and on a Quartz matrix.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (04/2018)

Specimen size: 7 × 6.8 × 4.3 cm = 2.76” × 2.68” × 1.69”

EQ14AM3: Floater aggregate of small Marcasite crystals with the twin law known as "sperkise", very sharp, and with extraordinary luster. This specimen clearly preserves cavities with the geometric shapes of vanished crystals, probably Baryte.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2020)

Specimen size: 9.8 × 7.9 × 3.8 cm = 3.86” × 3.11” × 1.50”

EK67W2: A novelty at St. Marie 2012. Very rich irregular aggregate of very flattened crystals of Marcasite that show, very well marked, the twin known as "cockscomb". They are extraordinarily bright, with small disphenoidal crystals of Chalcopyrite, and have skeletal forms, especially on the back side of the sample, that reveal holes left by former tabular crystals, probably Baryte.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (12/2011-01/2012)

Specimen size: 9.3 × 6.4 × 4.2 cm = 3.66” × 2.52” × 1.65”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 0.3 cm = 0.43” × 0.12”

EC96AG3: Very aerial aggregate of very sharp Marcasite crystals that are bright, with very well defined faces and edges, and on Quartz matrix, with cubic Pyrite crystals and “book-like” aggregates of laminar and bright Baryte crystals.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2016)

Specimen size: 11 × 5.7 × 8 cm = 4.33” × 2.24” × 3.15”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 0.9 cm = 0.47” × 0.35”

TC180EMX: Group of very sharp Marcasite crystals, with sharp shiny twins, on a Quartz matrix.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2018)

Specimen size: 13.4 × 9.8 × 3.7 cm = 5.28” × 3.86” × 1.46”

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 1.5 cm = 0.63” × 0.59”

EG87AM6: Large very aerial aggregate of extraordinarily sharp Marcasite crystals, with the classic twin known as “sperkise” or “en miter”, very lustrous, with small Pyrite crystals.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2020)

Specimen size: 20.1 × 12.7 × 9.9 cm = 7.91” × 5.00” × 3.90”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 1 cm = 0.59” × 0.39”

EV46W2: Nice rosettes of Siderite partially covered by flattened crystals of Marcasite that show, very well marked, the twin known as "cockscomb" and with minor Quartz.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (12/2011-01/2012)

Specimen size: 5.3 × 4.7 × 4.7 cm = 2.09” × 1.85” × 1.85”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 1.2 cm = 0.59” × 0.47”

EC16W2: A novelty at St. Marie 2012. Very aerial aggregate, very rich in short disphenoidal crystals of Chalcopyrite with a false appearance of the tetrahedron. They have very well defined faces and edges, are extraordinarily bright and some of them are very individualized. They are on a matrix of Quartz crystals.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (12/2011-01/2012)

Specimen size: 6 × 4.7 × 4.3 cm = 2.36” × 1.85” × 1.69”

Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.5 cm = 0.28” × 0.20”

EA47W2: A novelty at St. Marie 2012. Irregular aggregates of short disphenoidal crystals of Chalcopyrite with a false appearance of the tetrahedron. They have very well defined faces and edges, are extraordinarily bright, partially iridescent in some areas on the sample, and some of them are very individualized. They are on matrix, with Quartz crystals.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (12/2011-01/2012)

Specimen size: 10.5 × 8.3 × 6.7 cm = 4.13” × 3.27” × 2.64”

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

EB96W2: A novelty at St. Marie 2012. Drusy growth, on matrix, of short disphenoidal crystals of Chalcopyrite. They have a second phase of crystallization, of granular aspect, that coats the faces of the first crystalline growth. They are with comb-shaped growths of Quartz crystals.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (12/2011-01/2012)

Specimen size: 13 × 7.6 × 3.7 cm = 5.12” × 2.99” × 1.46”

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

EZ63AE5: Floater dendritic aggregate of small but very sharp octahedral crystals, also with the minor faces of the dodecahedron, a lot of them elongated and all have excellent color and luster. A nice miniature, very representative.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2016)

Specimen size: 4 × 3.1 × 2 cm = 1.57” × 1.22” × 0.79”

Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.4 cm = 0.24” × 0.16”

EH17AD8: Dendritic growth of crystals with perfectly defined faces and edges, very visibly twinned according to the Spinel law, and uniformly coated by Cuprite, with the typical reddish color. The sample, very fine and esthetic, is excellent in all orientations.
The specimen has been reviewed, photographed and published in the magazine ‘Mineral Up’ on page 52 of the 2016/02 edition
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2016)

Specimen size: 4.3 × 3.9 × 2.3 cm = 1.69” × 1.54” × 0.91”

Main crystal size: 1.7 × 0.7 cm = 0.67” × 0.28”

EC56AM1: Arborescent growth of Copper crystals, some of them with dodecahedron-faced terminations and others that are extraordinarily sharp and elongated, with a very well defined spinel-law twin.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2018)

Specimen size: 5.1 × 3.8 × 2.2 cm = 2.01” × 1.50” × 0.87”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 0.4 cm = 0.59” × 0.16”

EP76AM5: Arborescent growth of Copper crystals with the dominant forms of the cube and the octahedron, shiny and with a very aesthetic arrangement.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2018)

Specimen size: 5.4 × 5.3 × 3.8 cm = 2.13” × 2.09” × 1.50”

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

EA14AK4: Very aerial arborescent growths of native Copper crystals with defined faces and edges, with small remnants of Quartz matrix.
The sample is from the Christian Mondeilh collection, whose label we will send to the buyer.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2014)

Specimen size: 8 × 4.5 × 3 cm = 3.15” × 1.77” × 1.18”

EXL14AP3: Arborescent growth, very aerial, of native Copper crystals that are deformed but with distinct crystal forms. Small fragments of Quartz matrix appear too, and it has Malachite coatings with very vivid tones. The specimen comes from recent finds at Bou Nahas in 2022.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2022)

Specimen size: 9.4 × 3.6 × 3.9 cm = 3.70” × 1.42” × 1.54”

EC26AK9: Outstanding arborescent growth of deformed and flattened Copper crystals, three-dimensional and sharp on the octahedral terminations. On a matrix of Quartz crystals.
The specimen is from the collection of Christian Mondeilh (no. 0517/1999), whose label we will send to the buyer.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2014)

Specimen size: 9.5 × 7.1 × 5.6 cm = 3.74” × 2.80” × 2.20”

TMY97AQ0: Group of cubo-octahedral Galena crystals with very sharp and elongated crystal forms, which gives them a falsely pyramidal habit. With brilliant luster, on a Chalcopyrite matrix.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2023)

Specimen size: 4.7 × 4.4 × 3.2 cm = 1.85” × 1.73” × 1.26”

Main crystal size: 2 × 1.2 cm = 0.79” × 0.47”

EG87AH9: Group of very sharp cubo-octahedral Galena crystals with a good size, with very well defined faces and edges, bright and partially coated by Calcite and Quartz crystals and small Chalcopyrite crystals.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2017)

Specimen size: 6.5 × 5.4 × 5.1 cm = 2.56” × 2.13” × 2.01”

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

SV3340EPZ: Floater Copper group of good size, twisted and partially replaced by Malachite, very characteristic of the Bou Nahas Mine.
It is one of those pareidolia-generating pieces whose shape strongly resembles that of a horse (or a dragon)
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2023)

Specimen size: 10.3 × 8.2 × 5.1 cm = 4.06” × 3.23” × 2.01”

EB66AK9: Outstanding double arborescent growth of deformed and flattened copper crystals, three-dimensional and sharp on the octahedral terminations, in a crystalline Quartz matrix.
The specimen is from the Christian Mondeilh collection (No. 0755/2014), whose label we will send to the buyer.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2014)

Specimen size: 13.2 × 6.8 × 4.3 cm = 5.20” × 2.68” × 1.69”

EPQ96AP3: Arborescent growth, very aerial, of native Copper crystals that are deformed but with distinct crystal forms. Small fragments of Quartz matrix appear too, and it has Malachite coatings with very vivid tones. The specimen comes from recent finds at Bou Nahas in 2022.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2022)

Specimen size: 13.8 × 7 × 3.1 cm = 5.43” × 2.76” × 1.22”

TB37AD1: Cubo-octahedral Galena crystals with hoppered growths in some of their faces. They are bright and are on matrix, with Pyrite aggregates and small Baryte crystals. The quality of the Galena is better than usual for the locality.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2015)

Specimen size: 7.7 × 6.3 × 5.6 cm = 3.03” × 2.48” × 2.20”

Main crystal size: 2.8 × 2.3 cm = 1.10” × 0.91”

HM190TF: Cubo-octahedral Galena crystal with very balanced faces of both forms. With bright luster, on matrix, with tabular crystals of Baryte, transparent, shiny and with a yellowish color, and with Quartz crystals.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (01/2018)

Specimen size: 8 × 5.8 × 5.2 cm = 3.15” × 2.28” × 2.05”

Main crystal size: 2.5 × 1.9 cm = 0.98” × 0.75”

EPT77CD1: From a particularly prolific mine, this Galena is distinguished by its crystals being very well
placed, so aerial, on its matrix of Quartz and Marcasite.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2023)

Specimen size: 8.9 × 4.8 × 4.3 cm = 3.50” × 1.89” × 1.69”

Main crystal size: 2.4 × 1.8 cm = 0.94” × 0.71”

MBX47AP3: Obtained at Munich 2022
Cuboctahedral crystals of Galena, very aerial on their matrix, associated with groups of Pyrite crystals and small groups of very lustrous lamellar microcrystals of Baryte. The specimen comes from finds made in the Bou Nahas mine between August and September of 2022.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2022)

Specimen size: 9.2 × 7 × 3.3 cm = 3.62” × 2.76” × 1.30”

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 1.4 cm = 0.63” × 0.55”

EPF99CD4: Group of numerous isolated cubo-octahedral Galena crystals with well defined faces and edges, on matrix, accompanied by tabular Baryte crystals of a bluish color and crystals of Quartz that partially cover the Pyrite and Quartz matrix.
A beautiful association of this specimen of considerable size and very representative of what is found in the polymetallic Bou Nahas deposit.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2023)

Specimen size: 16.7 × 14.4 × 3.9 cm = 6.57” × 5.67” × 1.54”

Main crystal size: 2.1 × 2 cm = 0.83” × 0.79”

EPR87AQ1: Sphalerite crystals with different growth zones, somewhat more transparent and colored inside the crystal and black and polycrystalline on the surface. In matrix, with very sharp and lustrous crystals of Marcasite and iridescent Chalcopyrite on the base.
The specimen comes from a 2023 find in the Bou Nahas Mine where such large and sharp crystals of Sphalerite had not so far been reported.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (02/2023)

Specimen size: 12 × 9.8 × 5.8 cm = 4.72” × 3.86” × 2.28”

EXL68AQ1: Sphalerite crystals with sharp crystal forms, in matrix, with groups of small Chalcopyrite crystals and small white Quartz coatings. The specimen comes from a find made in 2023 in the Bou Nahas Mine where such large and well defined crystals of Sphalerite have not been reported before.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (02/2023)

Specimen size: 12.8 × 10.7 × 4.3 cm = 5.04” × 4.21” × 1.69”

Main crystal size: 2 × 1.7 cm = 0.79” × 0.67”