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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 AZZER AREA


Agoudal Mines

Anorthoroselite on Calcite (variety Co-bearing)
Anorthoroselite on Calcite (variety Co-bearing). Photo: Joaquim Callén
Photo: Joaquim Callén

Recorded under neon light
 

MPB49CD1: Extremely unusual, especially for its orange-brown color. The analyses do not lie, so it is undoubtedly Anorthoroselite and it is also of good quality, with the crystal groupings in sheaves and with its slightly pink Calcite matrix. If you are looking for something different, this piece is it.
Agoudal Mines, Tansifite, Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2023)

Specimen size: 7.4 × 4.7 × 5.6 cm = 2.91” × 1.85” × 2.20”

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

Analyzed
Anorthoroselite with Calcite
 

MK91AJ1: Groups of very well defined, lenticular Anorthoroselite crystals that are translucent, bright, with a very deep color, are implanted on a matrix coated by transparent prismatic Calcite crystals that have rhombohedral terminations and with a uniform pale pink color. The sample has been analyzed and we will send to the buyer a copy of the analysis.
Agoudal Mines, Tansifite, Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (07/2018)

Specimen size: 8.2 × 5.4 × 7.7 cm = 3.23” × 2.13” × 3.03”

Calcite minor fluorescence short UV
Anorthoroselite with Calcite. Anorthoroselite with Calcite.
Calcite (variety Co-bearing calcite)
Calcite (variety Co-bearing calcite). Calcite (variety Co-bearing calcite).
 

TX66AM9: Very aerial growth of Calcite crystals with the dominant forms of a rhombohedron, but very rich in faces, transparent, with very bright luster and an especially deep and uniform mauve color.
Agoudal Mines, Tansifite, Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2019)

Specimen size: 5.9 × 4.4 × 2.1 cm = 2.32” × 1.73” × 0.83”

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

Minor fluorescence long & short UV
Calcite (variety Co-bearing calcite)
 

TV87AM9: Very aerial growth of Calcite crystals with the dominant forms of a rhombohedron, but very rich in faces, transparent, with very bright luster and an especially deep and uniform mauve color.
Agoudal Mines, Tansifite, Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2019)

Specimen size: 6.4 × 6 × 3.2 cm = 2.52” × 2.36” × 1.26”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 0.7 cm = 0.47” × 0.28”

Minor fluorescence long & short UV
Calcite (variety Co-bearing calcite). Front
Front
Calcite (variety Co-bearing calcite). Side
Side
Calcite (variety Co-bearing calcite).
Calcite (variety Co-bearing calcite)
Calcite (variety Co-bearing calcite).
 

EY63Y2: A novelty at St. Marie 2013 (because of the scalenohedral crystals). Druse, on matrix, of very acute scalenohedral crystals with rhombohedral terminations. They are between transparent and translucent and have a color between deep pink and mauve, with a second generation of crystals with the same morphology, but with orange shades.
Agoudal Mines, Tansifite, Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2013)

Specimen size: 7.9 × 7.2 × 4.5 cm = 3.11” × 2.83” × 1.77”

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

Fluorescence short UV & minor fluorescence long UV
Calcite (variety Co-bearing calcite) with Calcite and Pyrite
 

EG96W2: Irregular aggregate of crystals formed by a short prism with six faces and a flattened terminal rhombohedron, with vertical parallel growths all along the prism. The crystals are bright and have a deep and uniform mauve color.
Agoudal Mines, Tansifite, Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2012)

Specimen size: 8 × 7.5 × 3.3 cm = 3.15” × 2.95” × 1.30”

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

Fluorescence short UV & minor fluorescence long UV
Calcite (variety Co-bearing calcite) with Calcite and Pyrite. Calcite (variety Co-bearing calcite) with Calcite and Pyrite.
Calcite (variety Co-bearing calcite)
Calcite (variety Co-bearing calcite). Front
Front
Calcite (variety Co-bearing calcite). Side
Side
Calcite (variety Co-bearing calcite).

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

EBR67AO9: Obtained at Ste. Marie 2022
Calcite crystals forming polycrystalline growths with very well defined rhombohedral faces and excellent color between pink and mauve (cobalt-bearing variety). Very characteristic specimen of the finds that were made in this mine at the beginning of the 21st century.
Agoudal Centre Quarry, Tansifite, Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (±2000)

Specimen size: 8.2 × 4.2 × 4.8 cm = 3.23” × 1.65” × 1.89”

Calcite (variety Co-bearing calcite)

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

EGM27AO9: Obtained at Ste. Marie 2022
Equant crystals of Calcite with the dominant crystal forms of the rhombohedron, translucent, unusually intense mauve color (cobalt-bearing variety). On matrix, with white Calcite crystals. An example of the type of specimens that were found many years in Agoudal.
Agoudal Centre Quarry, Tansifite, Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco

Specimen size: 8.2 × 7.5 × 5.8 cm = 3.23” × 2.95” × 2.28”

Main crystal size: 0.9 × 0.8 cm = 0.35” × 0.31”

Calcite (variety Co-bearing calcite). Calcite (variety Co-bearing calcite).
Calcite (variety Co-bearing calcite).
Calcite (variety Co-bearing calcite)
Calcite (variety Co-bearing calcite). Calcite (variety Co-bearing calcite).

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

ETF49AO9: Obtained at Ste. Marie 2022
Botryoidal growths of rhombohedral Calcite crystals with curvatures on their faces and edges, translucent and lustrous. On matrix and with excellent color, between pink and mauve (cobalt-bearing variety). Very characteristic of the finds that were made in this mine in the early 21st century.
Agoudal Centre Quarry, Tansifite, Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (±2000)

Specimen size: 9.2 × 7.7 × 5.1 cm = 3.62” × 3.03” × 2.01”

Minor fluorescence short UV
Calcite (variety Co-bearing calcite)

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

EXL67AO9: Obtained at Ste. Marie 2022
Botryoidal growths of rhombohedral Calcite crystals with curvatures on their faces and edges, translucent and lustrous. On matrix and with excellent color, between pink and mauve (cobalt-bearing variety). Very characteristic of the finds that were made in this mine in the early 21st century.
Agoudal Centre Quarry, Tansifite, Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (±2000)

Specimen size: 10 × 4.1 × 4 cm = 3.94” × 1.61” × 1.57”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 0.7 cm = 0.47” × 0.28”

Calcite (variety Co-bearing calcite). Calcite (variety Co-bearing calcite).
Calcite (variety Co-bearing calcite)
Calcite (variety Co-bearing calcite). Calcite (variety Co-bearing calcite).

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

EJM99AO9: Obtained at Ste. Marie 2022
Botryoidal growths of rhombohedral Calcite crystals with curvatures on their faces and edges, translucent and lustrous. On matrix and with excellent color, between pink and mauve (cobalt-bearing variety). Very characteristic of the finds that were made in this mine in the early 21st century.
Agoudal Centre Quarry, Tansifite, Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (±2000)

Specimen size: 10.4 × 6.8 × 5.8 cm = 4.09” × 2.68” × 2.28”

Roselite
 

MX14AL5: Roselite crystals on matrix, with very well defined faces and edges, marked curvatures, some of them doubly terminated, between translucent and transparent, very bright and with an intense deep red color. A Moroccan classic.
Agoudal Mines, Tansifite, Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (07/2018)

Specimen size: 3.8 × 3.8 × 2.6 cm = 1.50” × 1.50” × 1.02”

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

Roselite. Roselite.
Roselite with Calcite
Roselite with Calcite. Roselite with Calcite.

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

EPR66AO1: Group of Roselite crystals larger than usual with very well defined faces and edges and marked curvatures. With an intense deep color and very good luster. On matrix, with Calcite.
Agoudal Mines, Tansifite, Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco

Specimen size: 4.9 × 4.1 × 2.9 cm = 1.93” × 1.61” × 1.14”

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


Oumlil Mine

Anorthoroselite with Calcite
 

MG26AL4: Coating of lenticular Anorthoroselite crystals, transparent, of a very deep red color with distinct mauve tones and on matrix. The specimen has been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Oumlil Mine, Oumlil, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (08-09/2016)

Specimen size: 4.7 × 4.7 × 3.1 cm = 1.85” × 1.85” × 1.22”

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

Calcite fluorescent long & short UV
Anorthoroselite with Calcite. Anorthoroselite with Calcite.
Anorthoroselite with Calcite
Anorthoroselite with Calcite. Anorthoroselite with Calcite.
 

MA46AE6: Well developed Anorthoroselite crystals with fine polycrystalline surfaces, bright and with a very deep and uniform color, and with small Calcite crystals that are clear, colorless and very bright. On a sandstone matrix with white Calcite. The sample has been analyzed and we’ll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Oumlil Mine, Oumlil, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (08-09/2016)

Specimen size: 6.6 × 4.1 × 3.3 cm = 2.60” × 1.61” × 1.30”

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

Calcite fluorescence short UV & minor fluorescence long UV
Anorthoroselite with Calcite
 

MD27AF0: A druse of lenticular and finely striated Anorthoroselite crystals with a deep and uniform color, on matrix and with small clear and colorless Calcite crystals. The sample has been analyzed and we’ll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Oumlil Mine, Oumlil, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (08-09/2016)

Specimen size: 7.9 × 4.2 × 4.5 cm = 3.11” × 1.65” × 1.77”

Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.5 cm = 0.24” × 0.20”

Calcite fluorescent short UV
Anorthoroselite with Calcite. Anorthoroselite with Calcite.
Cobaltoan Calcite
Cobaltoan Calcite. Cobaltoan Calcite.
 

MV14AL3: Group of crystals formed by short six-sided prisms and a very flattened terminal rhombohedron, with parallel vertical growths along the prism. The crystals exhibit great luster and very uniform and deep color.
Oumlil Mine, Oumlil, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (10/2012)

Specimen size: 8.7 × 7.4 × 3.7 cm = 3.43” × 2.91” × 1.46”

Fluorescence short UV & minor fluorescence long UV
Calcite (variety Co-bearing calcite)
Calcite (variety Co-bearing calcite)  

TBB70CD4: Group of Calcite crystals formed by poorly developed prisms and flattened rhombohedral terminations with rounded contours. The piece has a more intense reddish color on its upper half and more pink in the lower half, both with very bright luster and with concentric growths as can be seen on the back of the specimen that corresponds to the matrix.
The specimen comes from the collection of Paco Fernández and Carmen Valls whose handwritten label (number 5-020) we will send to the buyer.
Oumlil Mine, Oumlil, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco

Specimen size: 10.3 × 8.9 × 4.6 cm = 4.06” × 3.50” × 1.81”

Main crystal size: 2.3 × 1 cm = 0.91” × 0.39”

Former collection of Francisco Fernández Ortega

Recorded under neon light

Recorded under neon light
Scorodite
Scorodite. Scorodite.
 

MA96AG4: Very sharp Scorodite crystals, transparent, with a very intense vitreous luster, a very uniform olive green color and on matrix. The sample is from a very recent find at the Oumlil mine.
Oumlil Mine, Oumlil, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (09/2017)

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

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

Scorodite with Karibibite
 

ML47AG4: A novelty at Munich 2017. Very sharp Scorodite crystals, transparent, with a very intense vitreous luster, a very uniform olive-green color and on matrix, with aggregates of small yellow crystals of Karibibite, a rare iron arsenate. The sample is from a very recent find at the Oumlil mine.
Oumlil Mine, Oumlil, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (09/2017)

Specimen size: 10.2 × 6.8 × 4.7 cm = 4.02” × 2.68” × 1.85”

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

Scorodite with Karibibite. Scorodite with Karibibite.

Aït Ahmane Mine

Aragonite
Aragonite. Front
Front
Aragonite. Rear
Rear

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

EXM26AP0: Centered group of very elongated Aragonite crystals, with good terminations, translucent, with a satiny luster and a uniform yellowish color.
The specimen has been analyzed, resulting in Aragonite with slight traces of iron, and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Aït Ahmane, Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2020)

Specimen size: 6.8 × 5.3 × 4.8 cm = 2.68” × 2.09” × 1.89”

Main crystal size: 5 × 0.6 cm = 1.97” × 0.24”

Analyzed

Fluorescent long & short UV
Aragonite

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

EYB26AP0: Centered group of very elongated Aragonite crystals, with good terminations, translucent, with a satiny luster and a uniform greenish color. With Quartz and small green inclusions at the base.
The specimen has been analyzed, resulting in Aragonite with slight traces of iron, and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Aït Ahmane, Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2020)

Specimen size: 7.4 × 4 × 3 cm = 2.91” × 1.57” × 1.18”

Main crystal size: 6.3 × 0.6 cm = 2.48” × 0.24”

Analyzed

Fluorescent long & short UV
Aragonite. Front
Front
Aragonite. Rear
Rear
Aragonite
Aragonite. Front
Front
Aragonite. Rear
Rear

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

EXM46AP0: Centered group of very elongated Aragonite crystals, with good terminations, translucent, with a satiny luster and a uniform greenish color. With Quartz and small green inclusions at the base.
The specimen has been analyzed, resulting in Aragonite with slight traces of iron, and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Aït Ahmane, Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2020)

Specimen size: 7.7 × 3.9 × 2.9 cm = 3.03” × 1.54” × 1.14”

Main crystal size: 7.4 × 1.1 cm = 2.91” × 0.43”

Analyzed

Fluorescent long & short UV
Aragonite

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

ETF46AP0: Centered groups of very elongated Aragonite crystals, with good terminations, translucent, with a satiny luster and a uniform yellowish color.
The specimen has been analyzed, resulting in Aragonite with slight traces of iron, and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Aït Ahmane, Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2020)

Specimen size: 11.6 × 9.7 × 5.9 cm = 4.57” × 3.82” × 2.32”

Main crystal size: 5.6 × 0.6 cm = 2.20” × 0.24”

Analyzed

Minor fluorescence long & short UV
Aragonite. Aragonite.
Calcite
Calcite. Front
Front
Calcite. Side
Side

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

TFM11AO6: Group of Calcite crystals, with dominant scalenohedron forms, with very well defined parallel growths, between translucent and transparent, with good luster and a uniform pale lilac color. From a unique find in Aït Ahmane where this type of Calcite was not known before and has not been seen since.
Aït Ahmane (auxiliary shaft), Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (07/2018)

Specimen size: 5.2 × 4.3 × 3.1  cm = 2.05” × 1.69” × 1.22”

Fluorescent long & short UV
Calcite with Chalcopyrite
 

MD36AI5: A novelty at Munich 2018. Scalenohedral crystal with rhombohedral terminal faces and very well defined polycrystalline growths. It is translucent, white, has slightly pink reflections and it is on a matrix of more Calcite. It shows an intense red fluorescence under long wave light and very intense red under short wave light.
Aït Ahmane, Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (07/2018)

Specimen size: 6 × 4.8 × 4.3 cm = 2.36” × 1.89” × 1.69”

Main crystal size: 4 × 1.8 cm = 1.57” × 0.71”

Intense fluorescence short UV & fluorescent long UV
Calcite with Chalcopyrite. Calcite with Chalcopyrite.
Calcite
Calcite. Front
Front
Calcite. Side
Side

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

TBR26AO6: Group of Calcite crystals, with dominant scalenohedron forms, with very well defined parallel growths, between translucent and transparent, with good luster and a uniform pale lilac color. From a unique find in Aït Ahmane where this type of Calcite was not known before and has not been seen since.
Aït Ahmane (auxiliary shaft), Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (07/2018)

Specimen size: 6.3 × 4.6 × 3.6 cm = 2.48” × 1.81” × 1.42”

Main crystal size: 5.1 × 3 cm = 2.01” × 1.18”

Fluorescent long & short UV
Calcite

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

TCD96AO6: Group of Calcite crystals, with dominant scalenohedron forms, with very well defined parallel growths, between translucent and transparent, with good luster and a uniform pale lilac color. From a unique find in Aït Ahmane where this type of Calcite was not known before and has not been seen since.
Aït Ahmane (auxiliary shaft), Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (07/2018)

Specimen size: 6.6 × 4.4 × 3.2 cm = 2.60” × 1.73” × 1.26”

Fluorescent long & short UV
Calcite. Front
Front
Calcite. Rear
Rear
Calcite
Calcite. Calcite.

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

TBF96AO6: Group of Calcite crystals, with dominant scalenohedron forms, with very well defined parallel growths, between translucent and transparent, with good luster and a uniform pale lilac color. From a unique find in Aït Ahmane where this type of Calcite was not known before and has not been seen since.
Aït Ahmane (auxiliary shaft), Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (07/2018)

Specimen size: 8.1 × 7.4 × 4.8 cm = 3.19” × 2.91” × 1.89”

Main crystal size: 6.2 × 2.6 cm = 2.44” × 1.02”

Fluorescent long & short UV
Calcite with Chalcopyrite
 

MC86AI5: A novelty at Munich 2018. Group of scalenohedral crystals with rhombohedral terminal faces and very well defined polycrystalline growths. They are translucent, white, have slightly pink reflections and are on a matrix of more Calcite. It shows an intense red fluorescence under long wave light and very intense red under short wave light.
Aït Ahmane, Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (07/2018)

Specimen size: 8.3 × 6.9 × 5.3 cm = 3.27” × 2.72” × 2.09”

Main crystal size: 4.2 × 2 cm = 1.65” × 0.79”

Intense fluorescence short UV & fluorescent long UV
Calcite with Chalcopyrite. Calcite with Chalcopyrite.
Silver with Calcite
Silver with Calcite. Silver with Calcite.
 

TR27AN1: A novelty post-Easter 2021. Isolated cubic Silver groups and crystals with extraordinarily well defined faces and edges, very bright and on a rock matrix with Calcite, which has been acidified.
Aït Ahmane, Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (12/2020)

Specimen size: 1.4 × 1 × 0.8 cm = 0.55” × 0.39” × 0.31”

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

Calcite fluorescent long & short UV
Silver with Calcite
 

TT37AN1: A novelty post-Easter 2021. Isolated cubic Silver groups and crystals with extraordinarily well defined faces and edges, very bright and on a rock matrix with Calcite, which has been acidified.
Aït Ahmane, Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (12/2020)

Specimen size: 1.6 × 1 × 0.5 cm = 0.63” × 0.39” × 0.20”

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

Calcite fluorescent long & short UV
Silver with Calcite. Silver with Calcite.
Silver with Calcite and Löllingite
Silver with Calcite and Löllingite. Front
Front
Silver with Calcite and Löllingite. Rear
Rear
Silver with Calcite and Löllingite. Top
Top
Silver with Calcite and Löllingite.
 

TX17AN1: A novelty post-Easter 2021. Isolated cubic Silver groups and crystals with extraordinarily well defined faces and edges, very bright and on a rock matrix with Calcite, which has been acidified, and small crystals of Löllingite (analyzed)
Aït Ahmane, Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (12/2020)

Specimen size: 1.7 × 1.2 × 0.9 cm = 0.67” × 0.47” × 0.35”

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

Calcite fluorescent long & short UV
Silver with Calcite
 

TK96AN1: A novelty post-Easter 2021. Isolated cubic Silver groups and crystals with extraordinarily well defined faces and edges, very bright and on a rock matrix with Calcite, which has been acidified.
Aït Ahmane, Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (12/2020)

Specimen size: 1.9 × 1.2 × 1 cm = 0.75” × 0.47” × 0.39”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.1 cm = 0.39” × 0.04”

Calcite fluorescent long & short UV
Silver with Calcite. Silver with Calcite.
Silver with Calcite
Silver with Calcite. Front
Front
Silver with Calcite. Side
Side
Silver with Calcite.
 

TA17AN1: A novelty post-Easter 2021. Isolated cubic Silver groups and crystals with extraordinarily well defined faces and edges, very bright and on a rock matrix with Calcite, which has been acidified.
Aït Ahmane, Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (12/2020)

Specimen size: 2.1 × 1.9 × 1 cm = 0.83” × 0.75” × 0.39”

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

Calcite fluorescent long & short UV
Silver with Calcite
 

TZ97AN1: A novelty post-Easter 2021. Isolated cubic Silver groups and crystals with extraordinarily well defined faces and edges, very bright and on a rock matrix with Calcite, which has been acidified.
Aït Ahmane, Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (12/2020)

Specimen size: 2.2 × 1.5 × 1.3 cm = 0.87” × 0.59” × 0.51”

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

Calcite fluorescent long & short UV
Silver with Calcite. Front
Front
Silver with Calcite. Rear
Rear
Silver with Calcite.
Silver with Calcite
Silver with Calcite. Front
Front
Silver with Calcite. Side
Side
Silver with Calcite. Silver with Calcite.
 

TD47AN1: A novelty post-Easter 2021. Isolated cubic Silver groups and crystals with extraordinarily well defined faces and edges, very bright and on a rock matrix with Calcite, which has been acidified.
Aït Ahmane, Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (12/2020)

Specimen size: 2.2 × 1.6 × 1.1 cm = 0.87” × 0.63” × 0.43”

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

Calcite fluorescent long & short UV
Silver with Calcite
 

TAB10AN4: New discovery post-Easter 2021: Isolated cubic Silver crystals and groups, with extraordinarily well defined and very lustrous faces and edges, found on a rock matrix with Calcite that has been acid-etched.
Aït Ahmane, Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (12/2020)

Specimen size: 2.2 × 2 × 1.1 cm = 0.87” × 0.79” × 0.43”

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

Silver with Calcite. Front
Front
Silver with Calcite. Side
Side
Silver with Calcite. Side
Side
Silver with Calcite.
Silver
Silver. Silver.
Silver.
 

TQ97AM9: A novelty post-Easter 2021: Isolated cubic Silver crystals and groups with extraordinarily well defined faces and edges, very bright, on a rock matrix with spathic Calcite, which has been acid-treated.
Aït Ahmane, Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (12/2020)

Specimen size: 2.2 × 2.2 × 1 cm = 0.87” × 0.87” × 0.39”

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

Silver with Calcite
 

TB7AN1: A novelty post-Easter 2021. Isolated cubic Silver groups and crystals with extraordinarily well defined faces and edges, very bright and on a rock matrix with Calcite, which has been acidified.
Aït Ahmane, Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (12/2020)

Specimen size: 2.3 × 1.6 × 0.9 cm = 0.91” × 0.63” × 0.35”

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

Calcite fluorescent long & short UV
Silver with Calcite. Silver with Calcite.
Silver with Calcite
Silver with Calcite. Front
Front
Silver with Calcite. Rear
Rear
Silver with Calcite. Side
Side
Silver with Calcite.
 

TK87AN1: A novelty post-Easter 2021. Isolated cubic Silver groups and crystals with extraordinarily well defined faces and edges, very bright and on a rock matrix with Calcite, which has been acidified.
Aït Ahmane, Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (12/2020)

Specimen size: 2.3 × 2 × 1.6 cm = 0.91” × 0.79” × 0.63”

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

Calcite fluorescent long & short UV
Silver with Calcite and Löllingite
 

TF28AN2: Dendritic aggregates and isolated cubic Silver crystals with extraordinarily well defined and very lustrous faces and edges. On a rock matrix with small crystals of Löllingite, and with Calcite, which has been acid-etched.
Aït Ahmane, Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco

Specimen size: 2.4 × 1.8 × 0.8 cm = 0.94” × 0.71” × 0.31”

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

Calcite fluorescent long & short UV
Silver with Calcite and Löllingite. Silver with Calcite and Löllingite.
Silver on Calcite
Silver on Calcite. Silver on Calcite.
Silver on Calcite.
 

TK27AM9: A novelty post-Easter 2021: Isolated cubic Silver crystals and groups with extraordinarily well defined faces and edges, very lustrous, on a rock matrix with spathic Calcite, which has been acid-treated.
Aït Ahmane, Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (12/2020)

Specimen size: 2.4 × 2.2 × 1.3 cm = 0.94” × 0.87” × 0.51”

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

Calcite fluorescent long & short UV
Silver with Calcite
 

TE67AN1: A novelty post-Easter 2021. Isolated cubic Silver groups and crystals with extraordinarily well defined faces and edges, very bright and on a rock matrix with Calcite, which has been acidified.
Aït Ahmane, Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (12/2020)

Specimen size: 2.5 × 2.1 × 1.3 cm = 0.98” × 0.83” × 0.51”

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

Calcite fluorescent long & short UV
Silver with Calcite. Silver with Calcite.
Silver on Gypsum
Silver on Gypsum. Silver on Gypsum.
 

TH67AN1: New post-Easter 2021: Isolated cubic Silver groups and crystals with extraordinarily well defined faces and edges, very bright, on a rock matrix with colorless and transparent Gypsum.
Aït Ahmane, Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (12/2020)

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

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

Silver on Gypsum
 

TM96AM9: New post-Easter 2021: Isolated cubic Silver groups and crystals with extraordinarily well defined faces and edges, very bright, on a rock matrix with colorless and transparent Gypsum.
Aït Ahmane, Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (12/2020)

Specimen size: 2.6 × 2.2 × 2 cm = 1.02” × 0.87” × 0.79”

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

Silver on Gypsum. Silver on Gypsum.
Silver on Calcite
Silver on Calcite. Silver on Calcite.
Silver on Calcite.
 

TN27AM9: A novelty post-Easter 2021: Isolated cubic Silver crystals and groups with extraordinarily well defined faces and edges, very bright, on a rock matrix with spathic Calcite, which has been acid-treated.
Aït Ahmane, Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (12/2020)

Specimen size: 3 × 2 × 1.3 cm = 1.18” × 0.79” × 0.51”

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

Calcite fluorescent long & short UV
Silver with Calcite
 

TR27AN0: A novelty post-Easter 2021. Isolated cubic Silver groups and crystals with extraordinarily well defined faces and edges, very bright and on a rock matrix with Calcite, which has been acidified.
Aït Ahmane, Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (12/2020)

Specimen size: 3 × 2 × 1.5 cm = 1.18” × 0.79” × 0.59”

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

Silver with Calcite. Silver with Calcite.
Silver on Calcite
Silver on Calcite. Silver on Calcite.
 

TP87AM9: A novelty post-Easter 2021: Isolated cubic Silver crystals and groups with extraordinarily well defined faces and edges, very bright, on a rock matrix with spathic Calcite, which has been acid-treated.
Aït Ahmane, Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (12/2020)

Specimen size: 3.1 × 2.2 × 1.4 cm = 1.22” × 0.87” × 0.55”

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

Calcite fluorescent long & short UV
Silver with Calcite and Löllingite
 

TP51AN1: A novelty post-Easter 2021. Isolated cubic Silver groups and crystals cubics and cuboctahedral with well defined faces and edges, bright and partially coated by Löllingite (analyzed). On a rock matrix with Calcite, which has been acidified.
Aït Ahmane, Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (12/2020)

Specimen size: 3.4 × 3 × 2.1 cm = 1.34” × 1.18” × 0.83”

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

Calcite fluorescent long & short UV
Silver with Calcite and Löllingite. Front
Front
Silver with Calcite and Löllingite. Rear
Rear
Silver with Calcite and Löllingite. Side
Side
Silver with Calcite and Löllingite.
Silver with Calcite and Löllingite
Silver with Calcite and Löllingite. Front
Front
Silver with Calcite and Löllingite. Rear
Rear
Silver with Calcite and Löllingite.
 

TF97AN1: A novelty post-Easter 2021. Isolated cubic Silver groups and crystals with extraordinarily well defined faces and edges, very bright and on a rock matrix with Calcite, which has been acidified, and small crystals of Löllingite.
Aït Ahmane, Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (12/2020)

Specimen size: 3.4 × 1.9 × 1.6 cm = 1.34” × 0.75” × 0.63”

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

Calcite fluorescent long & short UV
Silver with Calcite
 

TG87AN1: A novelty post-Easter 2021. Isolated cubic Silver groups and crystals with extraordinarily well defined faces and edges, very bright and on a rock matrix with Calcite, which has been acidified.
Aït Ahmane, Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (12/2020)

Specimen size: 3.7 × 2.7 × 1.4 cm = 1.46” × 1.06” × 0.55”

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

Calcite fluorescent long & short UV
Silver with Calcite. Silver with Calcite.
Silver with Löllingite and Calcite
Silver with Löllingite and Calcite. Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Silver with Löllingite and Calcite. Rear / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Rear / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Silver with Löllingite and Calcite.
 

TGB90AN4: New discovery post-Easter 2021: Isolated cubic Silver crystals and groups, with extraordinarily well defined and very lustrous faces and edges, found on a rock matrix with Calcite that has been acid-etched.
Aït Ahmane, Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (12/2020)

Specimen size: 4.2 × 2.8 × 1.8 cm = 1.65” × 1.10” × 0.71”

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

Calcite fluorescent long & short UV
Silver with Silver (variety amalgamate), Löllingite and Calcite

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

TCX89AO0: Very aerial growth of a first generation of cubic Silver crystals with extraordinarily well defined faces and edges, and a second generation that partially covers the crystals of the first with small, poorly defined, yellowish growths with rougher surfaces, also Silver, but a variety rich in mercury. This association sits on an epigenetic growth of Löllingite on an acid-etched Calcite matrix. All the components of the specimen have been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analyses to the buyer.
The specimen has been photographed and published in the magazine ‘Paragénesis’, number 02/2021, page 101
Aït Ahmane, Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (12/2020)

Specimen size: 4.5 × 4.1 × 2.4 cm = 1.77” × 1.61” × 0.94”

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

Silver with Silver (variety amalgamate), Löllingite and Calcite. Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Silver with Silver (variety amalgamate), Löllingite and Calcite. Rear / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Rear / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Silver with Silver (variety amalgamate), Löllingite and Calcite. Side / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Side / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Silver with Silver (variety amalgamate), Löllingite and Calcite. Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Silver with Löllingite and Calcite
Silver with Löllingite and Calcite. Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Silver with Löllingite and Calcite. Detail
Detail
Silver with Löllingite and Calcite. Rear
Rear
 

TF2AN2: Dendritic aggregates and isolated cubic Silver crystals with extraordinarily well defined and very lustrous faces and edges. On matrix, with small crystals of Löllingite and Calcite that has been acid-etched.
Aït Ahmane, Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco

Specimen size: 5.5 × 3 × 2.7 cm = 2.17” × 1.18” × 1.06”

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

Silver with Gypsum and Calcite
 

TJ90AN2: Isolated cubic Silver crystals with extraordinarily well defined and very lustrous faces and edges. On matrix, with Gypsum and Calcite that has been acid-etched.
Aït Ahmane, Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco

Specimen size: 5.6 × 3.7 × 3.1 cm = 2.20” × 1.46” × 1.22”

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

Calcite fluorescent long & short UV
Silver with Gypsum and Calcite. Silver with Gypsum and Calcite.
Silver with Gypsum and Calcite.
Silver with Silver (variety amalgamate - Hg-bearing), Löllingite and Calcite
Silver with Silver (variety amalgamate - Hg-bearing), Löllingite and Calcite. Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Silver with Silver (variety amalgamate - Hg-bearing), Löllingite and Calcite. Rear / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Rear / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Silver with Silver (variety amalgamate - Hg-bearing), Löllingite and Calcite. Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Silver with Silver (variety amalgamate - Hg-bearing), Löllingite and Calcite. micro photo: Dr. César Menor-Salván
micro photo: Dr. César Menor-Salván
 

THF70AN4: New discovery post-Easter 2021: A curiosity within this find was this first generation of cubic Silver crystals with extraordinarily well defined and very lustrous faces and edges, and a second generation of small growths, not very sharp, yellowish and with rougher surfaces, but which are also native Silver, although rich in mercury, partially covering the crystals of the first generation. The whole sits on a Löllingite matrix, with remnants of acid-etched Calcite.
All the components of the specimen have been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analyses to the buyer.
Aït Ahmane, Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (12/2020)

Specimen size: 6.5 × 3.7 × 3.7 cm = 2.56” × 1.46” × 1.46”

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

Analyzed
Silver with Calcite

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

TKX70AP9: Dendritic growths, groups of crystals and isolated cubic crystals of Silver with extraordinarily well defined faces and edges and very bright luster. On a rock matrix with Calcite that has been acid-etched to better show the crystals.
Aït Ahmane (auxiliary shaft), Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (12/2020)

Specimen size: 7 × 4 × 3.6 cm = 2.76” × 1.57” × 1.42”

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

Calcite fluorescent long & short UV
Silver with Calcite. Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Silver with Calcite. Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Silver with Calcite. Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Sphalerite with Quartz
Sphalerite with Quartz. Front
Front
Sphalerite with Quartz. Light behind
Light behind
Sphalerite with Quartz. Rear
Rear
 

MV6AJ0: A novelty at Munich 2018. This is one of the first mentions of Sphalerite as a collectible species at Aït Ahmane. It is a druse of not so well defined complex but translucent and bright crystals with a very deep honey color. They are with small Quartz crystals.
Aït Ahmane, Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (05/2018)

Specimen size: 7.1 × 4.8 × 3.4 cm = 2.80” × 1.89” × 1.34”

Gersdorffite with Calcite and Quartz
 

EY89Y2: Very sharp octahedral crystal, of a large size for the species. It is extraordinarily bright, a very uncommon quality for the species, and it is on a Quartz matrix. It has a small contact on one of the lower vertices and the whole back side.
Aït Ahmane, Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (11/2012)

Specimen size: 4 × 2.8 × 2.2 cm = 1.57” × 1.10” × 0.87”

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

Calcite fluorescent long & short UV
Gersdorffite with Calcite and Quartz.
Gersdorffite
Gersdorffite. Gersdorffite.
 

AB37AL3: Group of very sharp octahedral Gersdorffite crystals of good size, with polycrystalline growths on the surfaces of the faces.
Aït Ahmane, Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (±2010)

Specimen size: 4.1 × 3.2 × 1.3 cm = 1.61” × 1.26” × 0.51”

Main crystal size: 2.4 × 1.6 cm = 0.94” × 0.63”

Gersdorffite with Calcite
 

EJ66T4: From a recent find this same year. The octahedral crystals, with very well defined faces and edges, have a considerable size for the species and are unusually fresh and bright. They are on matrix, with Calcite that has not been acid-etched.
Aït Ahmane, Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (03/2011)

Specimen size: 5.2 × 4.7 × 4.1 cm = 2.05” × 1.85” × 1.61”

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

Gersdorffite with Calcite. Gersdorffite with Calcite.
Gersdorffite with Calcite and Annabergite
Gersdorffite with Calcite and Annabergite. Gersdorffite with Calcite and Annabergite.
 

EM49T0: A novelty at Sainte Marie-aux-Mines 2011. Very aerial group of sharp octahedral crystals of Gersdorffite. They are bright and are on a matrix of Calcite, with thin coatings of slightly green Annabergite.
The specimen has been reviewed, photographed and published as a new discovery in the magazine ‘Mineral Up’ on page 29 in number 2011/2
Aït Ahmane, Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (03/2011)

Specimen size: 6.2 × 5.8 × 3.7 cm = 2.44” × 2.28” × 1.46”

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

Calcite fluorescent long & short UV
Gersdorffite with Calcite
 

EV99Y2: Very aerial aggregate of very sharp octahedral crystals. They are extraordinarily bright, a very uncommon quality for the species, and it is on matrix, with Quartz.
Aït Ahmane, Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (11/2012)

Specimen size: 7.3 × 5 × 2.3 cm = 2.87” × 1.97” × 0.91”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 0.8 cm = 0.47” × 0.31”

Calcite fluorescent long & short UV
Gersdorffite with Calcite. Front
Front
Gersdorffite with Calcite. Side
Side
Djurleite-Chalcocite intergrowth
Djurleite-Chalcocite intergrowth. Front
Front
Djurleite-Chalcocite intergrowth. Rear
Rear
 

TA89AE7: A novelty at Tucson 2017. Djurleite-Chalcocite (intergrowth) mined carefully over 7 months in the Aït Ahmane area (it seems that not in the same shafts that produced the famous Gersdorffites) and presented for the first time in Tucson 2017.
We believe that for the sharpness of the crystals and their size this find will highlight Aït Ahmane as one of the world's best localities for this not so common species.
We will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Aït Ahmane (auxiliary shaft), Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (11/2014-05/2015)

Specimen size: 2.1 × 1.7 × 0.5 cm = 0.83” × 0.67” × 0.20”

Djurleite-Chalcocite intergrowth
 

TC88AF7: A novelty at Tucson 2017. Parallel growth of very flattened and bright crystals. These samples were mined carefully over seven months in the Aït Ahmane area (it seems not in the same shafts that produced the famous Gersdorffites) and, due the sharpness of the crystals and their size, this find will contend for being the world's best for the species. We’ll send to the buyer a copy of the analysis that indicates an intimate intergrowth of Djurleite and Chalcocite.
Aït Ahmane (auxiliary shaft), Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (11/2014-05/2015)

Specimen size: 2.2 × 2 × 0.6 cm = 0.87” × 0.79” × 0.24”

Djurleite-Chalcocite intergrowth.
Djurleite-Chalcocite intergrowth
Djurleite-Chalcocite intergrowth. Front
Front
Djurleite-Chalcocite intergrowth. Rear
Rear
 

TB50AE7: A novelty at Tucson 2017. Djurleite-Chalcocite (intergrowth) mined carefully over 7 months in the Aït Ahmane area (it seems that not in the same shafts that produced the famous Gersdorffites) and presented in Tucson 2017.
We believe that for the sharpness of the crystals and their size this find will highlight Aït Ahmane as one of the world's best localities for this not so common species.
We will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Aït Ahmane (auxiliary shaft), Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (11/2014-05/2015)

Specimen size: 2.4 × 1.4 × 1.4 cm = 0.94” × 0.55” × 0.55”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 1.4 cm = 0.59” × 0.55”

Djurleite-Chalcocite intergrowth on Calcite
 

TTM16AN7: Group of very sharp tabular Djurleite crystals, on matrix, one of them clearly dominant and with very sharp crystal forms. These Djurleites are considered among the best in the world.
We will send the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label on which it appears that it was purchased from ‘Fabre’
Aït Ahmane (auxiliary shaft), Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (11/2014-05/2015)

Specimen size: 3 × 2.8 × 2.2 cm = 1.18” × 1.10” × 0.87”

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

Former collection of Bob Noble
Djurleite-Chalcocite intergrowth on Calcite. Djurleite-Chalcocite intergrowth on Calcite.
Djurleite-Chalcocite intergrowth on Calcite.
Djurleite-Chalcocite intergrowth
Djurleite-Chalcocite intergrowth. Djurleite-Chalcocite intergrowth.
 

TF76AE8: A novelty at Tucson 2017. Aggregate on matrix of very sharp laminar crystals, bright and with a very well defined pseudohexagonal contour. The analysis indicates an intimate intergrowth of Djurleite and Chalcocite. We’ll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Aït Ahmane (auxiliary shaft), Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (11/2014-05/2015)

Specimen size: 4.2 × 2 × 2.3 cm = 1.65” × 0.79” × 0.91”

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

Djurleite-Chalcocite intergrowth on Calcite
Djurleite-Chalcocite intergrowth on Calcite  

TC160TG: Aggregate, on matrix, of very sharp crystals between lamellar and tabular, with bright luster and a sharp hexagonal outline. The analysis, of which we will send a copy to the buyer, indicates an intimate intergrowth of Djurleite and Chalcocite.
Aït Ahmane (auxiliary shaft), Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (11/2014-05/2015)

Specimen size: 5 × 4.4 × 3.9 cm = 1.97” × 1.73” × 1.54”

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

Djurleite-Chalcocite intergrowth on Calcite.
Djurleite-Chalcocite intergrowth on Calcite.
Djurleite-Chalcocite intergrowth on Calcite.
Djurleite-Chalcocite intergrowth
Djurleite-Chalcocite intergrowth. Front
Front
Djurleite-Chalcocite intergrowth. Top
Top
Djurleite-Chalcocite intergrowth.
 

TR66AE8: A novelty at Tucson 2017. Aggregate on matrix of bright laminar crystals with pseudohexagonal contour. The analysis indicates an intimate intergrowth of Djurleite and Chalcocite. We’ll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Aït Ahmane (auxiliary shaft), Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (11/2014-05/2015)

Specimen size: 5.6 × 4.2 × 3.5 cm = 2.20” × 1.65” × 1.38”

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

Djurleite-Chalcocite intergrowth

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

TV86AF7: A novelty at Tucson 2017. A cluster, on matrix, of very sharp and flattened crystals with a pseudohexagonal contour. These samples were mined carefully over seven months in the Aït Ahmane area (it seems that not in the same shafts that produced the famous Gersdorffites) and, due the sharpness of the crystals and their size, this find will highlight between the world's best for the species. We’ll send to the buyer a copy of the analysis that indicates an intimate intergrowth of Djurleite and Chalcocite.
This sample has been referenced and figurate, as a novelty in Ste. Marie 2017, in the magazine "Le Règne Minéral" (Num. 136. 2017; page 47)
Aït Ahmane (auxiliary shaft), Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (11/2014-05/2015)

Specimen size: 5.7 × 4 × 1.9 cm = 2.24” × 1.57” × 0.75”

Main crystal size: 2.1 × 1.7 cm = 0.83” × 0.67”

Djurleite-Chalcocite intergrowth. Djurleite-Chalcocite intergrowth.
Djurleite-Chalcocite intergrowth
Djurleite-Chalcocite intergrowth. Djurleite-Chalcocite intergrowth.
 

TV99AE8: A novelty at Tucson 2017. Aggregate on matrix of bright laminar crystals with pseudohexagonal contour. The analysis indicates an intimate intergrowth of Djurleite and Chalcocite. We’ll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
This specimen was published on the Mineralogical Record´s web page, in the ‘What's New’ section, report 46, April 14, 2017 edition.
Aït Ahmane (auxiliary shaft), Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (11/2014-05/2015)

Specimen size: 5.7 × 4 × 2.4 cm = 2.24” × 1.57” × 0.94”

Main crystal size: 2.4 × 1.2 cm = 0.94” × 0.47”

Quartz with Calcite
 

MX37AI7: A novelty at Munich 2018. Group of colorless Quartz crystals with diffuse phantom growths, extraordinarily bright and coated by very sharp white scalenohedral Calcite crystals. A beautiful surprise from a very recent find in the Aït Ahmane area of Morocco.
Aït Ahmane, Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (10/2018)

Specimen size: 9 × 8.8 × 6.5 cm = 3.54” × 3.46” × 2.56”

Main crystal size: 7.4 × 2.9 cm = 2.91” × 1.14”

Calcite fluorescent short UV
Quartz with Calcite. Front
Front
Quartz with Calcite. Rear
Rear
Quartz with Calcite
Quartz with Calcite. Front
Front
Quartz with Calcite. Rear
Rear
 

MB61AI4: A novelty at Munich 2018. Very fine Quartz with an almost "alpine" quality but mined in a polymetallic mine, which is not so common. The association of white Calcite crystals adds a "touch of class" to this unpredictable specimen.
Aït Ahmane, Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (10/2018)

Specimen size: 10.2 × 5 × 2.4 cm = 4.02” × 1.97” × 0.94”

Main crystal size: 10.2 × 3 cm = 4.02” × 1.18”

Calcite fluorescence short UV & minor fluorescence long UV
Quartz with Calcite
 

MA61AI4: A novelty at Munich 2018. Very fine Quartz with an almost "alpine" quality but mined in a polymetallic mine, which is not so common. The association of white Calcite crystals adds a "touch of class" to this unpredictable specimen.
This specimen has been photographed and published as a novelty at the 2018 Munich Show in the magazine "Lapis" number 12/2018, page 30
Aït Ahmane, Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (10/2018)

Specimen size: 11.1 × 4.1 × 3.4 cm = 4.37” × 1.61” × 1.34”

Calcite fluorescence short UV & minor fluorescence long UV
Quartz with Calcite. Front
Front
Quartz with Calcite. Rear
Rear
Quartz
Quartz. Front
Front
Quartz. Rear
Rear
 

EP87AI7: A novelty at Munich 2018. Group of colorless Quartz crystals, one of them clearly dominant, with diffuse phantom growths, abundant geometric growth figures and extraordinarily bright. A beautiful surprise from a very recent find in the Aït Ahmane area of Morocco.
Aït Ahmane, Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2018)

Specimen size: 12.1 × 4.8 × 3.8 cm = 4.76” × 1.89” × 1.50”

Proustite
Proustite  

TC230TE: Very aerial group of Proustite crystals with a short prismatic habit and excellent highly acute terminations. The crystals are transparent, very lustrous, and with an extraordinary ruby-red color.
Aït Ahmane, Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (12/2018)

Specimen size: 1.5 × 0.7 × 1.4 cm = 0.59” × 0.28” × 0.55”

Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.2 cm = 0.28” × 0.08”

Proustite.
Proustite on Calcite
Proustite on Calcite. Proustite on Calcite.
 

TM68AJ1: A novelty at Tucson 2019. Prismatic Proustite crystals with excellent acute terminations, transparent, very bright and with an extraordinary ruby-red color. On a Calcite matrix.
Aït Ahmane, Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (12/2018)

Specimen size: 4.6 × 3.4 × 2.3 cm = 1.81” × 1.34” × 0.91”

Main crystal size: 0.5 × 0.2 cm = 0.20” × 0.08”

Calcite minor fluorescence short UV
Proustite with Calcite

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

ETT70AP2: Very aerial and esthetic group of Proustite crystals with very sharp crystal forms, transparent, with extraordinary luster and intense red color, very vivid. In Calcite matrix, treated with acid in order to successfully highlight the aesthetics of the Proustite.
Aït Ahmane, Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (12/2018)

Specimen size: 4.8 × 3.7 × 2.1 cm = 1.89” × 1.46” × 0.83”

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

Proustite with Calcite. Proustite with Calcite.
Proustite with Calcite.
Proustite with Calcite
Proustite with Calcite. Proustite with Calcite.
Proustite with Calcite.
 

TP90AJ1: A novelty at Tucson 2019. Groups of elongated prismatic Proustite crystals with excellent acute terminations, transparent, very bright with an extraordinary ruby-red color. On a Calcite matrix.
Aït Ahmane, Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (12/2018)

Specimen size: 5.4 × 3.6 × 2.4 cm = 2.13” × 1.42” × 0.94”

Main crystal size: 0.9 × 0.2 cm = 0.35” × 0.08”

Calcite minor fluorescence short UV
Proustite with Calcite
 

TQ99AJ1: A novelty at Tucson 2019. Groups of elongated prismatic Proustite crystals with excellent acute terminations, transparent, very bright with an extraordinary ruby-red color. On a Calcite matrix.
Aït Ahmane, Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (12/2018)

Specimen size: 8.3 × 5.7 × 2.7 cm = 3.27” × 2.24” × 1.06”

Main crystal size: 0.8 × 0.2 cm = 0.31” × 0.08”

Calcite minor fluorescence short UV
Proustite with Calcite. Proustite with Calcite.
Proustite with Calcite
Proustite with Calcite. Proustite with Calcite.
 

TX66AJ2: A novelty at Tucson 2019. Groups of Proustite crystals with an elongated prismatic shape, with parallel growths and excellent pyramidal terminations. The crystals, transparent and very bright, have an extraordinary ruby-red color. On a matrix with lenticular Calcite crystals.
Aït Ahmane, Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (12/2018)

Specimen size: 9.2 × 7.5 × 3.2 cm = 3.62” × 2.95” × 1.26”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 0.3 cm = 0.59” × 0.12”

Proustite with Calcite

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

TY39AK3: Groups of Proustite crystals of elongated prismatic habit, with excellent terminations, some of them polycrystalline, in Calcite matrix. These high quality crystals are transparent, brilliant, and with an extraordinary ruby red color with mauve tones, very characteristic of this find.
Aït Ahmane, Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (12/2018)

Specimen size: 11.7 × 8.8 × 5.7 cm = 4.61” × 3.46” × 2.24”

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

Calcite minor fluorescence short UV
Proustite with Calcite. Proustite with Calcite.
Vladimirite
Vladimirite. Vladimirite.
 

ME86P5: An excellent sample. Vladimirite, a rare arsenate, forms globular growths of white fibrous and acicular crystals filling vugs on the matrix. These Vladimirites from Aït Ahmane are among the world’s best for the species.
Aït Ahmane, Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2002)

Specimen size: 8.6 × 4.9 × 5.5 cm = 3.39” × 1.93” × 2.17”

Vladimirite minor fluorescence long & short UV

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