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(text and pictures by FdW)
In april 2008 we were invited by the CTT to spend almost a week in the region. Not for mineral collecting, but for business. When we had some time left, we also visited some interesting spots in the mining region along the road from Bou Azzer to Bleida. We also were able to visit bleidafarwest three times that week. Begin your tour here to see what we found.
Bleida far west is a surface mine, opened in 2005, and will mine an estimate of 30.000 ounces of Au-reserves. The mine is located about 7 kilometers SW of the Bleida mine. We were guided in the mine by the local lead-engineer. He pointed us to a spot where gold was enriched... (Almost) every piece we broke, contained small flitters of gold 1-2 mm large :-)
If you still got energy... Please drive on to the Aghbar-section :-)
It is not allowed to look for minerals on this dump... You have to ask permission first at the head-office. And even when you have that permission, always politely also ask permission at the local mine shift-leader and show your permit! Because the local miners are also responsible for the safety in their mine.
Click on the thumbnail to see a panorama of the quarry (295 Kb).
Also see:
http://instruct.uwo.ca/earth-sci/fieldlog/pan_african/maroc/maroc.htm,
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/,
http://www.springerlink.com/,
http://www.adg2005.de/,
For more links and literature, see the Filon-2 section...
Mindat.org on this location.
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