TCB98AN7: Fluorite crystals with an unusual habit, cubic but beveled by tetrahexahedron faces, translucent, with an intense violet color and on a matrix of white lamellar Baryte crystals and small coatings of Quartz microcrystals (hematoidal variety) of an intense and uniform red color.
The specimen has been photographed and published in the magazine ‘Paragénesis’, number 02/2021, page 100
Jebel Saghro, Imiter rural commune, Tinghir circle, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2021)

Specimen size: 8.1 × 7.4 × 5 cm = 3.19” × 2.91” × 1.97”

Main crystal size: 1.3 × 1 cm = 0.51” × 0.39”

TM49AN2: Cubo-octahedral Fluorite crystals beveled by dodecahedron forms with a rough appearance due to fine polycrystalline growths. Translucent, with a very deep color, on a matrix of Baryte crystals.
The specimen has been photographed and published in the magazine ‘Paragénesis’, number 02/2021, page 99
Jebel Saghro, Imiter rural commune, Tinghir circle, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2021)

Specimen size: 8.7 × 7.8 × 7.3 cm = 3.43” × 3.07” × 2.87”

Main crystal size: 2.7 × 2.6 cm = 1.06” × 1.02”

TJ49AN2: Cubo-octahedral Fluorite crystals beveled by dodecahedron forms with a rough appearance due to fine polycrystalline growths. Translucent, with a very deep color, on a matrix of Baryte crystals.
Jebel Saghro, Imiter rural commune, Tinghir circle, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2021)

Specimen size: 8.7 × 8.4 × 5.1 cm = 3.43” × 3.31” × 2.01”

Main crystal size: 3.3 × 2.6 cm = 1.30” × 1.02”

EP70AH9: A novelty at Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines 2018. Group of very sharp cubic Fluorite crystals, between transparent and translucent, with an intense green color and very rich with inclusions. It is from a new locality found thanks to intensive prospective works for Baryte in Morocco, in which accidentally appeared also this Fluorite.
Jebel Saghro, Imiter rural commune, Tinghir circle, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2018)

Specimen size: 16.4 × 9.4 × 6.8 cm = 6.46” × 3.70” × 2.68”

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

EX96AE6: A novelty at Ste. Marie 2016. Drusy growth, on matrix, of crystals with a very short, almost non-existent prism. They are extraordinarily bright and have an unusually intense and deep red color due to very fine Hematite inclusions. Among the best known, for the color, of this Quartz variety.
Jebel Saghro, Imiter rural commune, Tinghir circle, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2016)

Specimen size: 11 × 9.4 × 5 cm = 4.33” × 3.70” × 1.97”

Main crystal size: 1.3 × 1 cm = 0.51” × 0.39”

ET66AM0: Druse of Quartz crystals with hardly any prism faces, shiny, with a very intense hematoidal red color and geometric color zoning (with colorless and transparent edges) and partially covered by a second generation of Quartz microcrystals of a lighter color, all of which completely covers crystals of a very intense amethyst color, which was what was previously being found in this area.
Jebel Saghro, Imiter rural commune, Tinghir circle, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2019)

Specimen size: 13.5 × 4.8 × 6.8 cm = 5.31” × 1.89” × 2.68”

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 1 cm = 0.71” × 0.39”

EV87AL6: Lamellar and hackly growths of Silver with good luster, on a Calcite matrix, with aggregates of deformed Acanthite crystals, of grayish tones and shiny. The Calcite is fluorescent under both longwave and shortwave UV light.
Imiter rural commune, Tinghir circle, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2019)

Specimen size: 4.8 × 4.4 × 4.4 cm = 1.89” × 1.73” × 1.73”

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

TX47AN2: Cubo-octahedral Fluorite crystals beveled by dodecahedron forms with a rough appearance due to fine polycrystalline growths. Translucent, with a very deep color, on a matrix of Baryte crystals.
Jebel Saghro, Imiter rural commune, Tinghir circle, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2021)

Specimen size: 6.7 × 6.4 × 4.2  cm = 2.64” × 2.52” × 1.65”

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

ET98AH9: A novelty at Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines 2018. Group of very sharp cubic Fluorite crystals, between transparent and translucent, with an intense green color and very rich with inclusions. It is from a new locality found thanks to intensive prospective works for Baryte in Morocco, in which accidentally appeared also this Fluorite. This specimen was photographed and published as a novelty at the 2018 Ste. Marie Show in the magazine ‘Mineralogical Record’ on page 874 in the volume 49, number 6, in the magazine "Le Règne Minéral", number 142, page 20, and the magazine ‘Mineral Up’ on page 35 of the 2018/02 edition.
Jebel Saghro, Imiter rural commune, Tinghir circle, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2018)

Specimen size: 9.5 × 8.7 × 7.7 cm = 3.74” × 3.43” × 3.03”

Main crystal size: 5 × 4.8 cm = 1.97” × 1.89”

TM26AD6: Spheroidal aggregates of short prismatic Proustite crystals that are translucent and have very well defined faces and edges.
Imiter rural commune, Tinghir circle, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (01-02/2011)

Specimen size: 3.9 × 2.9 × 3.1 cm = 1.54” × 1.14” × 1.22”

Main crystal size: 0.2 × 0.1 cm = 0.08” × 0.04”

EH16J7: A perfect miniature with a fine sharp octahedral crystal whose faces and edges are very much defined as usual on the samples from the locality.
Imiter Mine, Jebel Saghro, Imiter rural commune, Tinghir circle, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (09/2005)

Specimen size: 2 × 1.7 × 1.5 cm = 0.79” × 0.67” × 0.59”

Main crystal size: 1.7 × 1.5 cm = 0.67” × 0.59”

MN56K9: Well defined octahedron of Acanthite pseudomorph after Argentite, with two small Acanthite crystals in parallel growth.
Imiter Mine, Jebel Saghro, Imiter rural commune, Tinghir circle, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (09/2005)

Specimen size: 2.3 × 2.1 × 1.5 cm = 0.91” × 0.83” × 0.59”

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

EC63G1: The crystals of this group are pseudo-octahedral and very aerial and they have an excellent definition and an especially esthetic disposition.
Imiter Mine, Jebel Saghro, Imiter rural commune, Tinghir circle, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2005)

Specimen size: 2.4 × 1.6 × 1.5 cm = 0.94” × 0.63” × 0.59”

ML36G5: A group of octahedral crystals, very well shaped, aerial and, which is quite rare on the samples from Imiter, they are lustrous. All over the piece there are a lot of small red Proustite crystals.
Imiter Mine, Jebel Saghro, Imiter rural commune, Tinghir circle, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (09/2005)

Specimen size: 2.5 × 1.1 × 1.4 cm = 0.98” × 0.43” × 0.55”

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

MF6J7: A perfect miniature with some fine sharp octahedral crystals, one of them dominant, whose faces and edges are very much defined as usual on the samples from the locality.
Imiter Mine, Jebel Saghro, Imiter rural commune, Tinghir circle, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (09/2005)

Specimen size: 2.9 × 2.2 × 1.7 cm = 1.14” × 0.87” × 0.67”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 1.1 cm = 0.55” × 0.43”

MK56G5: A very aerial specimen, partially arborescent with crystals that are well developed. The luster of the crystals is more intense than usual.
Imiter Mine, Jebel Saghro, Imiter rural commune, Tinghir circle, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (09/2005)

Specimen size: 3.4 × 1.8 × 0.9 cm = 1.34” × 0.71” × 0.35”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 0.4 cm = 0.43” × 0.16”

NR56AH4: Arborescent growths, on matrix, of very sharp and bright octahedral crystals that form acute parallel alignments. A very fine sample from the Imiter area.
Imiter Mine, Jebel Saghro, Imiter rural commune, Tinghir circle, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco

Specimen size: 3.7 × 2.5 × 1.1 cm = 1.46” × 0.98” × 0.43”

Main crystal size: 0.8 × 0.3 cm = 0.31” × 0.12”

EF89L9: A novelty from the Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines Mineral Show. Uniaxial and parallel growth of octahedral Acanthite pseudomorphous after Argentite crystals. With very well defined faces and edges, these specimens have an exceptional luster, much better than other Acanthite specimens from Imiter we have seen before. On the back side of the sample one can see small Pyrite and Calcite crystals.
Imiter Mine, Jebel Saghro, Imiter rural commune, Tinghir circle, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (12/2007)

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

Main crystal size: 2.5 × 2 cm = 0.98” × 0.79”

EK90AK1: The specimen of great aesthetic finesse, shows a very aerial parallel arborescent growth of sharp octahedral crystals with very well defined crystal forms.
Imiter Mine, Jebel Saghro, Imiter rural commune, Tinghir circle, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco

Specimen size: 5.2 × 2 × 1.5 cm = 2.05” × 0.79” × 0.59”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 0.5 cm = 0.43” × 0.20”

SV2440TXX: Aerial and arborescent growth of Silver crystals with the very marked cubic forms having been preserved, and that has been completely pseudomorphed by Acanthite.
The specimen is a Moroccan classic for silver minerals, of which only few specimens are seen in the mineralogical market.
Imiter Mine, Jebel Saghro, Imiter rural commune, Tinghir circle, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco

Specimen size: 7.1 × 3.6 × 2.9 cm = 2.80” × 1.42” × 1.14”

TV48Q0: A plate from a fissure of microcrystals with skeletal forms, on matrix. The piece is from an old find in Imiter, probably around de decade of the 90’ts and unusual as the habitual it has a crystalline aspect.
Imiter Mine, Jebel Saghro, Imiter rural commune, Tinghir circle, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (±1990)

Specimen size: 4.2 × 4 × 4.6 cm = 1.65” × 1.57” × 1.81”

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

EQ50T4: Very aerial laminar growth with very well marked clean and fresh crystalline surfaces. It is on matrix with sparry Calcite, not acid-etched.
Imiter Mine, Jebel Saghro, Imiter rural commune, Tinghir circle, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2010)

Specimen size: 5.3 × 5.9 × 3.7 cm = 2.09” × 2.32” × 1.46”

Main crystal size: 3.5 × 2.5 cm = 1.38” × 0.98”

MA77AF2: Dendritic growth of extraordinarily elongated crystals with the very visible spinel law twins and black Acanthite surfaces. Its excellent condition of preservation in spite of the long time since it was mined (the sample is from a collection of the 80s-90s) suggests it has no embedded or interstitial mercury. It is not, then, the variety kongsbergite, the more typical Silver at this locality.
Imiter Mine, Jebel Saghro, Imiter rural commune, Tinghir circle, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco

Specimen size: 5.8 × 3.9 × 0.6 cm = 2.28” × 1.54” × 0.24”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 0.1 cm = 0.43” × 0.04”

ER94AK9: Arborescent and aerial hooked growths of bright native Silver, on Quartz matrix with cuboid growths of Acanthite.
The specimen comes from the Christian Mondeilh collection (No. 0760/2006), whose label we will send to the buyer. Unlike other Imiter Silvers, it has very good aesthetics and good definition in the arborescent crystals.
Imiter Mine, shaft P3, Jebel Saghro, Imiter rural commune, Tinghir circle, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (±2006)

Specimen size: 6.6 × 4.9 × 2.7 cm = 2.60” × 1.93” × 1.06”

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

TP49X2: Fissure plate of micro-crystals on matrix. The sample is from an old find at Imiter, probably around the 1990'ts. Its luster and fresh aspect suggest that it has no mercury and it is native Silver and not the variety kongsbergite, very common at this locality.
Imiter Mine, Jebel Saghro, Imiter rural commune, Tinghir circle, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (±1990)

Specimen size: 9.6 × 3.9 × 5.2 cm = 3.78” × 1.54” × 2.05”

EM16W7: Very aerial laminar growth with fresh, very well marked crystalline surfaces. It is on a rocky matrix, with cleaved Calcite. Its excellent condition of conservation in spite of the long time since it was mined suggests it hasn't embedded or interstitial mercury. It is not, then, the variety kongsbergite, the more typical Silver at this locality.
Imiter Mine, Jebel Saghro, Imiter rural commune, Tinghir circle, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (±1990)

Specimen size: 13.5 × 7.3 × 7 cm = 5.31” × 2.87” × 2.76”

Main crystal size: 8.1 × 3.7 cm = 3.19” × 1.46”

TN46W5: Laminar growths of native Silver on matrix. This sample, a magnificent Moroccan classic, is preserved in mint condition in spite of the many years since its extraction, due to it’s not being combined with native Mercury (Kongsbergite), unlike what happens with the majority of the samples from Imiter.
Imiter Mine, Jebel Saghro, Imiter rural commune, Tinghir circle, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (±1990)

Specimen size: 14.5 × 10 × 5.3 cm = 5.71” × 3.94” × 2.09”

EM94AL6: Proustite crystals with very well defined faces and edges and excellent pyramidal terminations, transparent, very lustrous, bright red with mauve tones, and with small white Quartz coatings. Excellent specimen of high quality and very representative of the locality.
Imiter Mine, Jebel Saghro, Imiter rural commune, Tinghir circle, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2019)

Specimen size: 7.1 × 4.1 × 4.3 cm = 2.80” × 1.61” × 1.69”

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

EQ93T4: Spheroidal aggregates of very bright and very well defined crystals of Proustite that have a very deep red color. The sample has a very "fresh" appearance and it is on a matrix of Quartz and Siderite. Its quality is very high for the locality.
Imiter Mine, Jebel Saghro, Imiter rural commune, Tinghir circle, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (03/2011)

Specimen size: 7.8 × 6.5 × 4.5 cm = 3.07” × 2.56” × 1.77”

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

TC180ND: A very unusual piece that comes from Touissit's remote past. Druse of lustrous Sphalerite crystals with cubo-octahedral Galena crystals, partially covered by large groups of white rhombohedral Dolomite crystals. In so many years of going there, I only saw a piece like this once.
Touissit, Touissit District, Jerada Province, Oriental Region  Morocco (1997)

Specimen size: 11.7 × 8.9 × 4.8 cm = 4.61” × 3.50” × 1.89”

DF86AM1: Twinned crystals with a prismatic habit, with very well defined faces and edges and excellent terminations. They are translucent, shiny, and on Galena and Dolomite matrix. A fine miniature.
Touissit, Touissit District, Jerada Province, Oriental Region  Morocco

Specimen size: 3.9 × 3 × 2.7 cm = 1.54” × 1.18” × 1.06”

Main crystal size: 1.3 × 0.6 cm = 0.51” × 0.24”

JM37AF3: Very sharp twinned crystals, between transparent and translucent, with whitish phantom growths, very bright, with a golden brown color and small Galena inclusions. The tip of the main twin, is slightly rough but free of damage. The termination of one of the secondary crystals is fractured.
The sample is from the James Catmur collection (number B120/A23AC) whose label we’ll send to the buyer.
Touissit Mine, Shaft IX (Puit IX), Touissit, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region  Morocco (± 1993)

Specimen size: 4.3 × 2.5 × 1.5 cm = 1.69” × 0.98” × 0.59”

NB36F2: The tabular form to the crystals is not common in Cerussite from Toussit. The small group of well-balanced Smithsonite adds a special touch.
Touissit Mine, Shaft IX (Puit IX), Touissit, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region  Morocco

Specimen size: 4.8 × 2.3 × 0.6 cm = 1.89” × 0.91” × 0.24”

NE16Y6: Slightly flattened crystals on a Galena matrix. They are very bright and between transparent and translucent, being some of them doubly terminated.
Touissit Mine, Shaft IX (Puit IX), Touissit, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region  Morocco (±1973)

Specimen size: 5.3 × 3.1 × 3 cm = 2.09” × 1.22” × 1.18”

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

E14QI7: Group of fine prismatic crystals on matrix, some of them doubly terminated, and they all are completely transparent and extraordinarily bright.
Touissit Mine, Shaft IX (Puit IX), Touissit, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region  Morocco (1997)

Specimen size: 5.8 × 3.4 × 4.3 cm = 2.28” × 1.34” × 1.69”

Main crystal size: 2.3 × 0.5 cm = 0.91” × 0.20”

EG88AM2: Very elongated arrow-shaped Cerussite twins. On matrix, one of them clearly dominant and very aerial, transparent, with intense pearly luster and slightly pink tones.
Touissit, Touissit District, Jerada Province, Oriental Region  Morocco

Specimen size: 6.4 × 3 × 1.5 cm = 2.52” × 1.18” × 0.59”

Main crystal size: 4.2 × 1.6 cm = 1.65” × 0.63”

ND76V7: Lattice aggregate of twinned tabular shaped crystals. They are colorless, very bright and transparent, and their morphology, uncommon for Touissit Cerussite, is similar to that of Tsumeb.
Touissit, Touissit District, Jerada Province, Oriental Region  Morocco

Specimen size: 7.1 × 4.8 × 2.5 cm = 2.80” × 1.89” × 0.98”

Main crystal size: 3.8 × 2.7 cm = 1.50” × 1.06”

M49ZAB7: Twinned, sharp, pale brown, transparent and extraordinarily bright Cerussite crystals that fill a vug on a massive Galena matrix.
Touissit Mine, Shaft IX (Puit IX), Touissit, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region  Morocco (1988)

Specimen size: 8.2 × 8.1 × 5.6 cm = 3.23” × 3.19” × 2.20”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 0.9 cm = 0.43” × 0.35”

MRF28CD4: An interesting set of secondary lead minerals from the legendary Touissit. The matrix displays ancient molds of relict cubic Galena crystals and, thanks to an area of cementation, various secondary minerals derived from the initial lead sulfide, resulting in a partial coating of cream-colored Dolomite crystals on which whitish twinned crystals of Cerussite are intergrown with remnants of dark Galena and finally, a beautiful group of lustrous Wulfenite crystals with an intense yellowish color adorning the center of the piece, where they cover an elongated Cerussite crystal, larger and with a different habit and colour than the other crystals of Cerussite on the piece.
The specimen has been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Touissit, Touissit District, Jerada Province, Oriental Region  Morocco

Specimen size: 8.7 × 7.4 × 3.4 cm = 3.43” × 2.91” × 1.34”

Main crystal size: 2.4 × 0.8 cm = 0.94” × 0.31”

MRV92CD3: One of the secondary lead compounds par excellence: Cerussite. In this specimen it appears in its maximum splendor, with very aerial and developed crystals, with a multitude of V twins and some cyclic twins. Cream tones, very lustrous and pearly, and in matrix.
The specimen comes from the famous Touissit locality, in Morocco, and stands out for its perfection, not always easy to achieve in specimens from this locality.
Touissit, Touissit District, Jerada Province, Oriental Region  Morocco

Specimen size: 9 × 6.4 × 4.2 cm = 3.54” × 2.52” × 1.65”

Main crystal size: 2.7 × 1.2 cm = 1.06” × 0.47”

TY16N9: Flat twinned crystals, some of them doubly terminated. They are grayish and have an excellent luster and are on matrix. Very different from the usual Cerussite from Touissit.
Touissit Mine, Shaft IX (Puit IX), Touissit, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region  Morocco (1994)

Specimen size: 10.2 × 4.9 × 3.2 cm = 4.02” × 1.93” × 1.26”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 1.2 cm = 0.55” × 0.47”

TR96AL5: Anglesite crystal rich in faces, transparent, very bright, with an intense lemon yellow color and with Galena inclusions in the lower part. A Moroccan classic.
We will send the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Touissit, Touissit District, Jerada Province, Oriental Region  Morocco

Specimen size: 1.5 × 1.1 × 0.7 cm = 0.59” × 0.43” × 0.28”

EG68AA1: Aggregate of extremely sharp Anglesite crystals, translucent, very bright, and very rich with dark-gray Galena inclusions and on a matrix of granular Galena.The sample, finely mounted, is with a label of the Jacques Dayssiols collection that we will send to the buyer.
Touissit, Touissit District, Jerada Province, Oriental Region  Morocco

Specimen size: 3.7 × 3.5 × 1.6 cm = 1.46” × 1.38” × 0.63”

Main crystal size: 2 × 1.5 cm = 0.79” × 0.59”

LQ88AE6: Pair of short blocky crystals, one of them clearly dominant and partially doubly terminated, with very well defined dipyramidal terminations. The crystals, between transparent and translucent, have an intense lemon-yellow color, are very bright and they are on a Galena matrix.
The sample is from the Carles Millán collection whose catalog card we’ll send to the buyer.
Touissit Mine, Shaft IX (Puit IX), Touissit, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region  Morocco (±2001)

Specimen size: 5.4 × 4 × 2.4 cm = 2.13” × 1.57” × 0.94”

Main crystal size: 4 × 2.8 cm = 1.57” × 1.10”

ER28H1: A group of very well-defined crystals which have an uncommon habit. They have a magnificent luster, deep yellow color and abundant inclusions of Galena. Unusual and especially nice.
Touissit Mine, Shaft IX (Puit IX), Touissit, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region  Morocco (1996)

Specimen size: 5.5 × 5.8 × 2.1 cm = 2.17” × 2.28” × 0.83”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.5 cm = 0.39” × 0.20”

TP70AE1: Aggregate of crystals, one of them clearly dominant and partially doubly terminated. The crystals, with very well defined parallel growths, have very sharp terminal faces, a pale yellow color, are translucent and very bright and are on a granular Galena matrix. An excellent Moroccan classic due to the perfection and definition of the crystals.
Touissit Mine, Shaft IX (Puit IX), Touissit, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region  Morocco (±1979)

Specimen size: 6.4 × 5.3 × 3.2 cm = 2.52” × 2.09” × 1.26”

Main crystal size: 5.1 × 2.5 cm = 2.01” × 0.98”

TK37W7: Sharp, transparent crystals on a matrix of Galena that partially fills some of the Anglesite crystals. Very bright and with an especially intense yellow color. A Moroccan classic.

The Touissit Mine was a historic operation that produced azurites, malachites, cerussites, vanadinites, wulfenites, argentiferous galenas, sphalerites and other lead, arsenic and zinc minerals highly valued by collectors.
It is located in the Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, one of the most important lead-zinc areas in Morocco, with Mississippi Valley-type (MVT) mineralization that replaces carbonate dolostones.
Touissit Mine, Shaft IX (Puit IX), Touissit, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region  Morocco (±1991)

Specimen size: 6.5 × 4.8 × 5.3 cm = 2.56” × 1.89” × 2.09”

Main crystal size: 4.2 × 1.7 cm = 1.65” × 0.67”

N78DA0: Great color!
Touissit Mine, Shaft IX (Puit IX), Touissit, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region  Morocco (02/95)

Specimen size: 7 × 2.5 cm = 2.76” × 0.98”

TC380ET: Very well-defined Anglesite crystals, transparent, lustrous, and on a Galena matrix. Without any damage, which, for the locality, is really uncommon given the extraction difficulties in the times when the mines were working.

The name Touissit refers to what was a historic mining operation that produced azurites, malachites, cerussites, vanadinites, wulfenites, argentiferous galenas, sphalerites, and other lead, arsenic, and zinc minerals highly valued by collectors.
It is located in the Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, one of the most important lead-zinc areas in Morocco, with Mississippi Valley-type (MVT) mineralization that replaces carbonate dolomites.
Touissit, Touissit District, Jerada Province, Oriental Region  Morocco

Specimen size: 7 × 6.7 × 4.3 cm = 2.76” × 2.64” × 1.69”

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 1 cm = 0.63” × 0.39”

N54NAL5: Very sharp Anglesite crystals, rich in faces, between transparent and translucent, lemon yellow and on a massive Galena matrix. A Moroccan classic.
Touissit Mine, Shaft IX (Puit IX), Touissit, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region  Morocco (1997)

Specimen size: 12.4 × 7.9 × 7.2 cm = 4.88” × 3.11” × 2.83”

Main crystal size: 3 × 1.6 cm = 1.18” × 0.63”

EH14AM1: Floater group of very sharp tabular Wulfenite crystals, translucent, with good luster and an intense and uniform yellow color, on a matrix of white rhombohedral Dolomite crystals. From a recent discovery at a classic locality.
Sidi Amer area, Oued El Heimer, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region  Morocco (03/2020)

Specimen size: 2.8 × 2.6 × 1.6 cm = 1.10” × 1.02” × 0.63”

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

MR86AL5: Floater group of highly profiled tabular crystals rich in faces, a characteristic of Sidi Amer specimens, of a deep and uniform yellow color. A Moroccan classic.
Sidi Amer, Oued El Heimer, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region  Morocco

Specimen size: 3.1 × 3 × 2.9 cm = 1.22” × 1.18” × 1.14”

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 1 cm = 0.63” × 0.39”

EE14AM1: Floater group of tabular Wulfenite crystals, very sharp and rich in faces, translucent, with good luster and an intense and uniform yellow color, on a Dolomite matrix. With coatings of small crystals of Mottramite. From a recent discovery in a classic locality.
Sidi Amer area, Oued El Heimer, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region  Morocco (03/2020)

Specimen size: 3.4 × 2.9 × 1.7 cm = 1.34” × 1.14” × 0.67”

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

EY11AL3: Group of Wulfenite crystals, between tabular and lamellar, with deep growth forms, brilliant surfaces and a more intense and deep color than usual in examples from this deposit.
Touissit Mine, Shaft XI (Puit XI), Oued Mekta, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region  Morocco (±1979)

Specimen size: 3.8 × 2.1 × 2 cm = 1.50” × 0.83” × 0.79”

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

TC2220MAM: Group of lamellar Wulfenite crystals, one of them outstanding, very aerial and with an intense yellow color. This specimen stand out from others due to its crystal size.
Sidi Amer, Oued El Heimer, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region  Morocco (±1981)

Specimen size: 3.8 × 3.4 × 2.7 cm = 1.50” × 1.34” × 1.06”

Main crystal size: 2.6 × 2.4 cm = 1.02” × 0.94”

TCH47AP9: Group of Wulfenite crystals between lamellar and tabular, very rich in crystal forms, with good luster and a bright and uniform yellow color.
A Moroccan classic of which few specimens are seen anymore, and even fewer with this perfection.
Sidi Amer, Oued El Heimer, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region  Morocco

Specimen size: 4.1 × 4 × 3.4 cm = 1.61” × 1.57” × 1.34”

Main crystal size: 2.2 × 1.8 cm = 0.87” × 0.71”

MG96S7: Aggregate of laminar crystals whose aspect is quite different than usual on the pieces from this locality, due to its crystals overlapping to form flattened rosettes. Their yellow color is very intense and uniform.
Sidi Amer, Oued El Heimer, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region  Morocco

Specimen size: 4.2 × 3.8 × 1.3 cm = 1.65” × 1.50” × 0.51”

Main crystal size: 0.9 × 0.6 cm = 0.35” × 0.24”

ME27AA9: Very sharp laminar Wulfenite crystals, translucent, bright, with an intense yellow color and on a Dolomite matrix. Great classic, from a historic mine.
Sidi Amer, Oued El Heimer, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region  Morocco

Specimen size: 4.6 × 3.8 × 3.2 cm = 1.81” × 1.50” × 1.26”

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

EF56AM1: Floater group of tabular Wulfenite crystals, very sharp and rich in faces, translucent, with good luster and an intense and uniform yellow color, on a Dolomite matrix. With coatings of small crystals of Mottramite. From a recent discovery at a classic locality.
Sidi Amer area, Oued El Heimer, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region  Morocco (03/2020)

Specimen size: 4.6 × 4.4 × 2.3 cm = 1.81” × 1.73” × 0.91”

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

ND46Y6: Irregular aggregate of Wulfenite crystals with very well defined faces and edges and showing very prominent pyramidal faces. The crystals, on matrix, are very bright and have a deep, intense and uniform yellow color.
Sidi Amer, Oued El Heimer, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region  Morocco (±1973)

Specimen size: 4.7 × 3.4 × 3.3 cm = 1.85” × 1.34” × 1.30”

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

MJ68AA9: Very sharp Wulfenite crystals, between laminar and tabular, translucent, bright, with an intense yellow color and quadrangular phantom growths and on a Dolomite matrix. Great classic, from a historic mine.
Sidi Amer, Oued El Heimer, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region  Morocco (±1981)

Specimen size: 5.5 × 3.5 × 4.8 cm = 2.17” × 1.38” × 1.89”

Main crystal size: 1.9 × 1.1 cm = 0.75” × 0.43”

N67DAAC9: Very sharp Wulfenite crystals, between laminar and tabular, translucent, bright, with an intense yellow color and on a Dolomite matrix. A Moroccan classic, from a historic mine.
Sidi Amer, Oued El Heimer, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region  Morocco (10/1995)

Specimen size: 10 × 5.6 × 4.5 cm = 3.94” × 2.20” × 1.77”

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

A29KAG3: Groups of very sharp laminar Wulfenite crystals, clearly hemihedral, transparent, very bright, with an intense yellow color and on a Dolomite matrix. A Moroccan classic of the eighties.
Sidi Amer, Oued El Heimer, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region  Morocco (03/1996)

Specimen size: 11.7 × 9 × 3.9 cm = 4.61” × 3.54” × 1.54”

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

EA90AM3: Group of very sharp Wulfenite crystals, with a tabular to lamellar habit. Thicker, and with shinier surfaces and a more intense and deeper color than usual in pieces from this deposit.
The specimen is from the Christian Mondeilh collection (number 5180/1979), whose label we will send to the buyer.
Touissit Mine, Shaft XI (Puit XI), Oued Mekta, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region  Morocco (±1979)

Specimen size: 11.8 × 3.4 × 8.5 cm = 4.65” × 1.34” × 3.35”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 1.1 cm = 0.59” × 0.43”

LF66AL0: Group of tabular Wulfenite crystals, very rich in crystalline forms, with excellent luster, between yellow and orange color very vivid and uniform and more intense than that of the best known Wulfenites from Sidi Amer. From a Moroccan locality that is already a classic for Wulfenite.
This specimen is from the Philippe Morelon collection (No. 860), whose label we will send to the buyer.
Touissit Mine, Shaft XI (Puit XI), Oued Mekta, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region  Morocco

Specimen size: 15.4 × 10.8 × 6.4 cm = 6.06” × 4.25” × 2.52”

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

ERC27AN5: Druse, on matrix, of slightly arsenical elongated Vanadinite crystals with curvatures, many of them doubly terminated, lustrous and of a lighter color than usual in this type of specimen, with black Mottramite coatings. The Mottramite was analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer. The piece comes from Touissit's past, and has a very high quality even compared to other specimens from those glorious times.
Touissit, Touissit District, Jerada Province, Oriental Region  Morocco (±1990)

Specimen size: 4.2 × 3.8 × 3 cm = 1.65” × 1.50” × 1.18”

Main crystal size: 2.6 × 1.5 cm = 1.02” × 0.59”

ERD47AN5: Druse, on matrix, of slightly arsenical elongated Vanadinite crystals with curvatures, many of them doubly terminated, lustrous and of a lighter color than usual in this type of specimen, with black Mottramite coatings. The Mottramite was analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer. The piece comes from Touissit's past, and has a very high quality even compared to other specimens from those glorious times.
Touissit, Touissit District, Jerada Province, Oriental Region  Morocco (±1990)

Specimen size: 4.6 × 4.2 × 3 cm = 1.81” × 1.65” × 1.18”

Main crystal size: 2 × 1 cm = 0.79” × 0.39”

EXB67AN5: Druse, on matrix, of slightly arsenical elongated Vanadinite crystals with curvatures, many of them doubly terminated, lustrous and of a lighter color than usual in this type of specimen, with black Mottramite coatings. The Mottramite was analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer. The piece comes from Touissit's past, and has a very high quality even compared to other specimens from those glorious times.
Touissit, Touissit District, Jerada Province, Oriental Region  Morocco (±1960)

Specimen size: 6.3 × 4.9 × 4 cm = 2.48” × 1.93” × 1.57”

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 1.2 cm = 0.71” × 0.47”

MZ47AF2: Vanadinite (variety arsenic-bearing vanadinite) crystals, many of them doubly terminated, with very well defined faces and edges, a creamy color, clearer and brighter than usual with this kind of Vanadinite, and on a Dolomite matrix. Associated on the matrix are small black Mottramite crystals. These arsenian Vanadinite are currently accepted as a Moroccan classic.
Touissit, Touissit District, Jerada Province, Oriental Region  Morocco

Specimen size: 7.5 × 6.1 × 3.2 cm = 2.95” × 2.40” × 1.26”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.5 cm = 0.39” × 0.20”

FP86C6: Huge crystal size on this arsenical Vanadinite (more Arsenic than in normal Vanadinite but not enough Arsenic to make it the variety endlichite). Its color is clearer and more esthetic than the usual material. The crystals show well their morphology. Minor black Mottramite on the bottom of the crystals too.
Touissit, Touissit District, Jerada Province, Oriental Region  Morocco

Specimen size: 8.2 × 4.5 × 4.3 cm = 3.23” × 1.77” × 1.69”

Main crystal size: 2.7 × 1.7 cm = 1.06” × 0.67”

ERB96AN5: Druse, on matrix, of slightly arsenical elongated Vanadinite crystals with curvatures, many of them doubly terminated, lustrous and of a lighter color than usual in this type of specimen, with black Mottramite coatings. The Mottramite was analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer. The piece comes from Touissit's past, and has a very high quality even compared to other specimens from those glorious times.
Touissit, Touissit District, Jerada Province, Oriental Region  Morocco (±1990)

Specimen size: 5.4 × 4.8 × 2.8 cm = 2.13” × 1.89” × 1.10”

Main crystal size: 2.4 × 1.4 cm = 0.94” × 0.55”

ETV68AN5: Druse, on matrix, of slightly arsenical elongated Vanadinite crystals with curvatures, many of them doubly terminated, lustrous and of a lighter color than usual in this type of specimen, with black Mottramite coatings. The Mottramite was analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer. The piece comes from Touissit's past, and has a very high quality even compared to other specimens from those glorious times.
Touissit, Touissit District, Jerada Province, Oriental Region  Morocco (±1990)

Specimen size: 6.2 × 3.8 × 3.5 cm = 2.44” × 1.50” × 1.38”

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 0.8 cm = 0.71” × 0.31”

NB26AL5: Druse, on matrix, of elongated Vanadinite crystals rich in arsenic, with curvatures, many of them doubly terminated, with good luster and lighter in color than usual in this type of specimen.
Touissit, Touissit District, Jerada Province, Oriental Region  Morocco

Specimen size: 6.7 × 4.2 × 2.4 cm = 2.64” × 1.65” × 0.94”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 0.7 cm = 0.43” × 0.28”

EM96Y1: Isolated and groups of arsenian Vanadinite crystals with very well defined and slightly curved faces and edges, most of them doubly terminated. The Vanadinite crystals have an unusual tan color that contrasts nicely with the dark surface of very small Mottramite crystals coating the matrix.
Touissit, Touissit District, Jerada Province, Oriental Region  Morocco

Specimen size: 14 × 7.5 × 3.5 cm = 5.51” × 2.95” × 1.38”

Main crystal size: 0.9 × 0.4 cm = 0.35” × 0.16”

A26APE6: Globular Smithsonite that shows a deep color. Normally the ones from Touissit are not as good as those from Tsumeb, but this particular one is not that far off.
Touissit Mine, Shaft IX (Puit IX), Touissit, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region  Morocco (03/96)

Specimen size: 9.5 × 8.7 × 5 cm = 3.74” × 3.43” × 1.97”

NF96AB5: Spheroidal growths, on matrix, of small, green and very bright Smithsonite crystals. The sample is from an old find at Touissit, where Smithsonite is an infrequent species.
Touissit, Touissit District, Jerada Province, Oriental Region  Morocco

Specimen size: 9.6 × 6.5 × 5 cm = 3.78” × 2.56” × 1.97”

Main crystal size: 0.2 × 0.1 cm = 0.08” × 0.04”

TB66AL5: Botryoidal growths of small, bright, yellowish Smithsonite crystals on matrix with associated small crystals of Cerussite. The specimen is from an old find in Touissit, where Smithsonite is not a very common species, although when it does appear it is usually very bright, as in this case. This specimen has been analyzed and we will send the buyer a copy of the analysis.


Touissit, Touissit District, Jerada Province, Oriental Region  Morocco

Specimen size: 17.8 × 14.6 × 5.3 cm = 7.01” × 5.75” × 2.09”

N8PH5: Its prismatic crystals have a perfect crystallization, but we call attention on its degree of transparency, very uncommon, on this plumbian variety of Aragonite. It’s also interesting to enhance the contrast with Limonite matrix with little acicular crystals of Malachite. We’ll send a copy of the analysis with the sample.
Touissit Mine, Shaft IX (Puit IX), Touissit, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region  Morocco (1998)

Specimen size: 2.9 × 3.1 × 2.4 cm = 1.14” × 1.22” × 0.94”

Main crystal size: 2 × 0.9 cm = 0.79” × 0.35”

MF39AF0: Very elongated prismatic crystals, a lot of them doubly terminated. They have very well defined faces and edges, with a white color and are on matrix with small Smithsonite crystals. A classic of the most glorious Touissit epoch.
Touissit, Touissit District, Jerada Province, Oriental Region  Morocco

Specimen size: 9.9 × 5.3 × 3 cm = 3.90” × 2.09” × 1.18”

Main crystal size: 8 × 0.7 cm = 3.15” × 0.28”

TG69AL3: Aggregate of very elongated elongated crystals, with two generations of growth, the first having very elongated white crystals, with slight curvatures on the faces and edges, and a second, with reddish orange tints. A classic salvaged from Touissit‘s glorious era.
Touissit, Touissit District, Jerada Province, Oriental Region  Morocco

Specimen size: 11.1 × 10.9 × 5.6 cm = 4.37” × 4.29” × 2.20”

Main crystal size: 3.3 × 0.6 cm = 1.30” × 0.24”

EC6F5: Very unusual for Touissit, this Mimetite (we have analyzed it) has formed small sharp, green crystals that have created semi-spherical groups across almost the whole specimen. Where one can see the matrix it is dark, which gives the specimen a mottled appearance. We will send the purchaser a copy of the analysis.
Touissit Mine, Shaft IX (Puit IX), Touissit, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region  Morocco (1998)

Specimen size: 8.5 × 5.5 × 4 cm = 3.35” × 2.17” × 1.57”

M57AI7: Cuprite can be considered as a very rare species at Touissit. On the sample it is in small, very bright and reddish crystals on matrix.
Touissit, Touissit District, Jerada Province, Oriental Region  Morocco (1997)

Specimen size: 7.5 × 7 × 4.3 cm = 2.95” × 2.76” × 1.69”

M96LH5: It is really a rare local specimen. Being a common species, Baryte is very rare in Touissit. It is a complex growth apparently forming a single crystal with smoothly curved faces and edges and slightly pinkish color. The group esthetically stands on a rocky matrix.
Touissit, Touissit District, Jerada Province, Oriental Region  Morocco

Specimen size: 10.3 × 9.5 × 5.8 cm = 4.06” × 3.74” × 2.28”

Main crystal size: 10.3 × 6 cm = 4.06” × 2.36”

EFR90AP3: The specimen brings together a selection of Touissit mineralogy: with a base of octahedral crystals of altered Galena on a druse of pale pink rhombohedral Dolomite crystals, translucent and very sharp Cerussite twins, and transparent and yellow crystals of Wulfenite. Different from the specimens usually known from Touissit.
Touissit, Touissit District, Jerada Province, Oriental Region  Morocco

Specimen size: 7.3 × 4.8 × 4.4 cm = 2.87” × 1.89” × 1.73”