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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


BOU NAHAS MINE


Other Species

Pyrite with Baryte
Pyrite with Baryte. Pyrite with Baryte.
 

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”

Pyrite with Baryte
 

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”

Pyrite with Baryte. Front
Front
Pyrite with Baryte. Rear
Rear
Pyrite with Baryte.
Pyrite with Quartz
Pyrite with Quartz. Front
Front
Pyrite with Quartz. Rear
Rear
 

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”

Pyrite on Baryte "box" and Baryte
 

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”

Pyrite on Baryte
Pyrite
Pyrite.
Pyrite. Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Pyrite. Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Pyrite  

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”

Pyrite with Baryte

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

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”

Pyrite with Baryte. Front
Front
Pyrite with Baryte.
Pyrite with Baryte
Pyrite with Baryte. Pyrite with Baryte.

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

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”

Pyrite on Baryte "box" and Baryte
 

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”

Pyrite on Baryte Pyrite on Baryte
Pyrite with Baryte
Pyrite with Baryte. Pyrite with Baryte.

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

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”

Pyrite on Baryte 'box' and Baryte
 

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”

Pyrite on Baryte 'box' and Baryte.
Pyrite with Baryte
Pyrite with Baryte. Pyrite with Baryte.

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

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”

Marcasite
 

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”

Marcasite. Front
Front
Marcasite. Rear
Rear
Marcasite with Quartz
Marcasite with Quartz. Front
Front
Marcasite with Quartz. Rear
Rear
 

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”

Marcasite
 

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”

Marcasite. Front
Front
Marcasite. Rear
Rear
Marcasite with Chalcopyrite
Marcasite with Chalcopyrite. Front
Front
Marcasite with Chalcopyrite. Rear
Rear
Marcasite with Chalcopyrite.
 

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”

Marcasite with Barite, Pyrite and Quartz
 

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”

Marcasite with Barite, Pyrite and Quartz. Marcasite with Barite, Pyrite and Quartz.
Marcasite on Quartz
Marcasite on Quartz.
Marcasite on Quartz.
Marcasite on Quartz  

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”

Marcasite (Sperkise twinn) with Pyrite

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

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”

Marcasite (Sperkise twinn) with Pyrite. Marcasite (Sperkise twinn) with Pyrite.
Marcasite (Sperkise twinn) with Pyrite.
Siderite with Marcasite and Quartz
Siderite with Marcasite and Quartz. Siderite with Marcasite and Quartz.
 

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”

Chalcopyrite with Quartz
 

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”

Chalcopyrite with Quartz.
Chalcopyrite with Quartz
Chalcopyrite with Quartz. Chalcopyrite with Quartz.
 

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”

Copper
 

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”

Copper. Front
Front
Copper. Rear
Rear
Copper with Cuprite
Copper with Cuprite. Front
Front
Copper with Cuprite. Rear
Rear
Copper with Cuprite. Copper with Cuprite.
 

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”

Copper (spinel twin)
 

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”

Copper (spinel twin). Front
Front
Copper (spinel twin). Rear
Rear
Copper
Copper. Front
Front
Copper. Rear
Rear
Copper.
 

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”

Copper
Copper  

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”

Former collection of Christian Mondeilh
Copper. Front
Front
Copper. Rear
Rear
Copper with Malachite
Copper with Malachite. Copper with Malachite.
Copper with Malachite.

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

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”

Copper with Quartz
Copper with Quartz  

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”

Former collection of Christian Mondeilh
Copper with Quartz. Front
Front
Copper with Quartz. Rear
Rear
Galena with Calcite, Quartz and Chalcopyrite
Galena with Calcite, Quartz and Chalcopyrite. Front
Front
Galena with Calcite, Quartz and Chalcopyrite. Side
Side
 

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”

Galena with Pyrite and Baryte
 

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”

Galena with Pyrite and Baryte. Galena with Pyrite and Baryte.
Galena with Quartz and Marcasite
Galena with Quartz and Marcasite. Photo: Joaquim Callén
Photo: Joaquim Callén

Recorded under neon light
 

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”

Galena with Pyrite and Quartz
 

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”


Recorded under neon light

Recorded under neon light

Baryte

Baryte with Sphalerite and Quartz
Baryte with Sphalerite and Quartz. Front
Front
Baryte with Sphalerite and Quartz. Rear
Rear
 

ET16AH9: Pair of very sharp thin tabular Baryte crystals, one of them clearly dominant, doubly terminated and complete, transparent, bright, with a pale blue color and partially coated by white aggregates of Quartz microcrystals and small Sphalerite crystals.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (04/2018)

Specimen size: 4.1 × 4 × 2.5 cm = 1.61” × 1.57” × 0.98”

Main crystal size: 3.4 × 2 cm = 1.34” × 0.79”

Baryte with Marcasite, Chalcopyrite and Siderite
 

EX13W2: A novelty at St. Marie 2012. Floater parallel growth of thin tabular crystals of Baryte that are sharp with very well defined faces and edges. They are translucent and very bright and have flattened crystals of Marcasite that show, very well marked, the twin known as "cockscomb", with bright disphenoidal crystals of Chalcopyrite and minor crystals of Siderite.
The specimen has been reviewed, photographed and published as a new discovery in the magazine ‘Mineral Up’ on page 48 in number 2012/2
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (12/2011-01/2012)

Specimen size: 4.6 × 4.5 × 1.5 cm = 1.81” × 1.77” × 0.59”

Main crystal size: 4.4 × 1.8 cm = 1.73” × 0.71”

Baryte with Marcasite, Chalcopyrite and Siderite.
Baryte with Malachite and Pyrite
Baryte with Malachite and Pyrite. Front
Front
Baryte with Malachite and Pyrite. Side
Side
 

EF16AA0: A novelty from the 2014 Ste. Marie Show. Single crystal, on matrix, with very well defined faces and edges, transparent, very bright, with a brownish-yellow color and with darker selective micro-inclusions on some of the faces. With Pyrite and Malachite.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (04/2014)

Specimen size: 5.6 × 3.2 × 2.6 cm = 2.20” × 1.26” × 1.02”

Main crystal size: 2.7 × 1.4 cm = 1.06” × 0.55”

Baryte with Pyrite
 

EH66AA0: A novelty from the 2014 Ste. Marie Show. Aggregate of crystals with a very unusual trigonal-like morphology. The crystals, which are complete, have very well defined faces and edges, and are translucent, very bright, with a
brownish-yellow color and with darker selective micro-inclusions on some of the faces. On a small Pyrite matrix.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (04/2014)

Specimen size: 5.7 × 4.6 × 2.2 cm = 2.24” × 1.81” × 0.87”

Main crystal size: 4.4 × 3.8 cm = 1.73” × 1.50”

Baryte with Pyrite. Front
Front
Baryte with Pyrite. Rear
Rear
Baryte with Chalcopyrite
Baryte with Chalcopyrite. Front
Front
Baryte with Chalcopyrite. Rear
Rear
 

EH14W2: A novelty at St. Marie 2012. Floater parallel growth of thin tabular crystals of Baryte that are sharp with very well defined faces and edges. They are translucent and very bright and have bright disphenoidal crystals of Chalcopyrite on their faces.
This specimen was photographed for the ‘Ste.-Marie-aux-Mines 2012’ section of the magazine ‘Mineralien Welt’ and appears on page 83 of number 5/2012
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (12/2011-01/2012)

Specimen size: 6.2 × 4.3 × 2.4 cm = 2.44” × 1.69” × 0.94”

Main crystal size: 3.7 × 3.1 cm = 1.46” × 1.22”

Baryte with Quartz and Pyrite
 

EG68AH8: A novelty at Sainte Marie-aux-Mines 2018. Very sharp thin tabular Baryte crystals, transparent, bright and partially coated by white aggregates of Quartz microcrystals and small Pyrite crystals. The color deserves a separate comment because there is a mixture of reddish yellow, with orange in some areas but mainly concentrated on the edges, and blue locally with greenish hues on the wide main pinacoid faces.
This specimen was photographed and published as a novelty at the 2018 Ste. Marie Show in the magazine ‘Mineralogical Record’ on page 873 in the volume 49, number 6, and the magazine ‘Mineral Up’ on page 36 of the 2018/02 edition.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (12/2017)

Specimen size: 6.2 × 5.5 × 3.1 cm = 2.44” × 2.17” × 1.22”

Baryte with Quartz and Pyrite. Front
Front
Baryte with Quartz and Pyrite. Rear
Rear
Baryte with Quartz and Pyrite. Side
Side
Baryte with Quartz and Pyrite
Baryte with Quartz and Pyrite.
Baryte with Quartz and Pyrite.
Baryte with Quartz and Pyrite  

TC120EP: Group of very sharp tabular Baryte crystals that form distinct parallel growths, lustrous, between transparent and translucent, with a uniform sky-blue color and partially covered by Quartz with Pyrite microcrystals.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (04/2018)

Specimen size: 7.2 × 3.4 × 3.9 cm = 2.83” × 1.34” × 1.54”

Main crystal size: 5.1 × 3.3 cm = 2.01” × 1.30”

Baryte with Sphalerite and Quartz
 

EV96AH9: Very sharp thin tabular Baryte crystals, doubly terminated, complete, forming very well defined parallel growths. They are transparent, bright, with a pale blue color and partially coated by white aggregates of Quartz microcrystals and small Sphalerite crystals.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (04/2018)

Specimen size: 7.5 × 6.8 × 3 cm = 2.95” × 2.68” × 1.18”

Main crystal size: 7.2 × 4.1 cm = 2.83” × 1.61”

Baryte with Sphalerite and Quartz. Front
Front
Baryte with Sphalerite and Quartz. Rear
Rear
Baryte with Sphalerite and Quartz.
Baryte with Pyrite
Baryte with Pyrite. Front
Front
Baryte with Pyrite. Rear
Rear
 

EL57AA0: A novelty from the 2014 Ste. Marie Show. Floater parallel growth of crystals with very well defined faces and edges, translucent, very bright, with a brownish-yellow color and with darker selective micro-inclusions on some of the faces.
This specimen has been published on the Mineralogical Record´s web page, in the ‘What’s New in the Mineral World?’ section, report #38, July 19, 2014 edition.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (04/2014)

Specimen size: 7.7 × 5.5 × 2.1 cm = 3.03” × 2.17” × 0.83”

Main crystal size: 4 × 3 cm = 1.57” × 1.18”

Baryte with Quartz and Pyrite
 

EF69AH8: A novelty at Sainte Marie-aux-Mines 2018. Floater aggregate of parallel growths of very sharp thin tabular Baryte crystals, transparent, bright and partially coated by white aggregates of Quartz microcrystals and small Pyrite crystals. The color needs a separate comment because there is a mixture of reddish yellow, with orange in some areas but mainly concentrated on the edges, and blue, locally with greenish hues on the wide main pinacoid faces.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (12/2017)

Specimen size: 8 × 5 × 2.8 cm = 3.15” × 1.97” × 1.10”

Main crystal size: 5 × 4.5 cm = 1.97” × 1.77”

Baryte with Quartz and Pyrite. Front
Front
Baryte with Quartz and Pyrite. Rear
Rear
Baryte with Quartz and Pyrite. Side
Side
Baryte with Quartz and Pyrite
Baryte with Quartz and Pyrite. Front
Front
Baryte with Quartz and Pyrite. Side
Side
 

EC99AH8: A novelty at Sainte Marie-aux-Mines 2018. Floater aggregate of parallel growths of very sharp thin tabular Baryte crystals, transparent, bright and partially coated by white aggregates of Quartz microcrystals and small Pyrite crystals. The color needs a separate comment because there is a mixture of reddish yellow, with orange in some areas but mainly concentrated on the edges, and blue, locally with greenish hues on the wide main pinacoid faces.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (12/2017)

Specimen size: 8.1 × 7.4 × 3.6 cm = 3.19” × 2.91” × 1.42”

Main crystal size: 3.2 × 2.6 cm = 1.26” × 1.02”

Baryte with Quartz
 

EH76AL4: Very sharp tabular crystals of Baryte one of them clearly dominant and very aerial, translucent, shiny and with a uniform light blue color. On matrix, with coatings of small Quartz crystals.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (04/2018)

Specimen size: 8.8 × 6.1 × 5.1 cm = 3.46” × 2.40” × 2.01”

Main crystal size: 4.1 × 4 cm = 1.61” × 1.57”

Baryte with Quartz. Front
Front
Baryte with Quartz. Rear
Rear
Baryte with Quartz and Pyrite
Baryte with Quartz and Pyrite. Front
Front
Baryte with Quartz and Pyrite. Rear
Rear
 

EE49AH8: A novelty at Sainte Marie-aux-Mines 2018. Floater aggregate of parallel growths of very sharp thin tabular Baryte crystals, transparent, bright and partially coated by white aggregates of Quartz microcrystals and small Pyrite crystals. The color needs a separate comment because there is a mixture of reddish yellow, with orange in some areas but mainly concentrated on the edges, and blue, locally with greenish hues on the wide main pinacoid faces.
This specimen was photographed and published as a novelty at the 2018 Ste. Marie Show in the magazine ‘Le Règne Minéral’ number 142, page 20
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (12/2017)

Specimen size: 9.1 × 4.6 × 4.5 cm = 3.58” × 1.81” × 1.77”

Baryte with Pyrite
 

EM69AA0: A novelty from the 2014 Ste. Marie Show. Parallel growth of thick tabular crystals with very well defined faces and edges and a very particular shape. They are transparent, very bright, with a brownish-yellow color and with darker selective micro-inclusions on some of the faces and are partially coated by deformed Pyrite crystals.
This specimen has been photographed and published as a novelty at the 2014 Ste. Marie Show in the magazine "Lapis" number 07-08/2014, page 72
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (04/2014)

Specimen size: 9.7 × 5.2 × 3 cm = 3.82” × 2.05” × 1.18”

Main crystal size: 4 × 2.7 cm = 1.57” × 1.06”

Baryte with Pyrite. Front
Front
Baryte with Pyrite. Side
Side
Pyrite perimorphic of Baryte
Pyrite perimorphic of Baryte. Front
Front
Pyrite perimorphic of Baryte. Rear
Rear

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

MKG13AN8: A novelty from Morocco, from a discovery in the summer of 2020. Perimorphic growth of a mosaic of small, very bright, cubic and octahedral Pyrite crystals, that retain the forms of two tabular and parallel Baryte crystals that have disappeared due to dissolution.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (07/2020)

Specimen size: 4.1 × 3 × 1.4 cm = 1.61” × 1.18” × 0.55”

Pyrite perimorphic of Baryte

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

MNP37AN8: A novelty from Morocco, from a discovery in the summer of 2020. White parallel and tabular Baryte crystals covered by a perimorphic growth of a mosaic of small, very bright, cubic and octahedral Pyrite crystals. On the back of the piece (see video) the almost total dissolution of the original Baryte crystals can be seen.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (07/2020)

Specimen size: 6.8 × 5.9 × 2.8 cm = 2.68” × 2.32” × 1.10”

Main crystal size: 4.1 × 3 cm = 1.61” × 1.18”

Pyrite perimorphic of Baryte. Front
Front
Pyrite perimorphic of Baryte. Rear
Rear
Pyrite perimorphic of Baryte
Pyrite perimorphic of Baryte. Front
Front
Pyrite perimorphic of Baryte. Rear
Rear

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

MTV67AN8: A novelty from Morocco, from a discovery in the summer of 2020. White parallel and tabular Baryte crystals covered by a perimorphic growth of a mosaic of small, very bright, cubic and octahedral Pyrite crystals. On the back of the piece (see video) the almost total dissolution of the original Baryte crystals can be seen.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (07/2020)

Specimen size: 8.5 × 3.8 × 3.4 cm = 3.35” × 1.50” × 1.34”

Main crystal size: 3.2 × 2.7 cm = 1.26” × 1.06”

Pyrite perimorphic of Baryte

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

MHJ91AN8: A novelty from Morocco, from a discovery in the summer of 2020. White parallel and tabular Baryte crystals covered by a perimorphic growth of a mosaic of small, very bright, cubic and octahedral Pyrite crystals. On the back of the piece (see video) the almost total dissolution of the original Baryte crystals can be seen.
This specimen has been published on the Mineralogical Record´s web page, in the 'What's New' section, report 62, June 5, 2022 edition, page 6
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (07/2020)

Specimen size: 10.5 × 8.8 × 7 cm = 4.13” × 3.46” × 2.76”

Main crystal size: 8.7 × 4 cm = 3.43” × 1.57”

Pyrite perimorphic of Baryte. Front
Front
Pyrite perimorphic of Baryte. Rear
Rear

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