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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. To make a long story short: for us Filon-2 seemed to be the most productive for mineral specimens at that moment. Begin your tour here to see what we found.
I do not have pictures yet of a lot of other minerals we found. Lots of interesting white, green, brown, red, purple, black, pink, violett and blue arsenates. Well, at least I hope it are interesting arsenates... Some are probably just goethite+hematite and not karibibite ;-) Analyses are being made at the moment. Stay tuned ;-)
If this made you feel warm inside... Please drive on to the Oumlil-section :-)
It is not allowed to look for minerals on this dump, although it's right next to the road... 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.
If you're searching for mineralogical articles on this locality (minrec-2007-0910-special-issue, afm-2007-02-special-issue, lapis-2006-0708-special-issue, afm-2001-03-special-issue etc etc...), please contact us...
Georges Favreau et al. wrote a number of fabulous articles (more or less standard works/"books" on Bou-Azzer. When you want to visit the region you really need to buy and read them. These are the large articles in Le Cahier des Micromonteurs, Lapis and Mineralogical Record.
Also see:
http://www.mindat.org/forum (on the name Bouazzar),
http://www.minerapole.com/ (best of collectors, georges favreau),
http://www.fdim.ma/ (pdf),
http://www.thecdi.com/cobaltnews (pdf's),
http://www.vulcan3d.com/ (pdf),
http://www.mineralinfo.org/,
http://www.mineralienatlas.de/,
http://www.smartminerals.com/ (bou-azzer),
http://www.smartminerals.com/ (morocco),
http://www.mineralservice.com/ (morocco),
http://www.minsocam.org/ (on bouazzerite),
http://www.handbookofmineralogy.org/ (on wendwilsonite),
http://webmineral.com/ (on talmessite),
http://nl.wikipedia.org/,
mineralogical record (on bou-azzer), also see
http://www.lithographie.org/,
Mindat.org on this location.
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