I’ve posted superb new specimens in this new Bou Azzer Update (click here). A few localities from this famous Moroccan mining district are represented, including the famous Agoudal Mine, which unfortunately has just recently closed.

Roselite on calcite, Agoudal Mine, Bou Azzer District, Tazenakht, Ouarzazate, Morocco – 7.7 cm

Roselite, epitactic on beta-roselite, with cobaltausitnite, on cobaltoan calcite
Agoudal Mine, Bou Azzer District, Tazenakht, Ouarzazate, Morocco
5.7 cm

Roselite, exhibiting epitactic orientation on beta-roselite
Agoudal Mine, Bou Azzer District, Tazenakht, Ouarzazate, Morocco

Roselite with minor beta-roselite, on calcite
Agoudal Mine, Bou Azzer District, Tazenakht, Ouarzazate, Morocco
5.6 cm

Roselite, Bou Azzer District, Tazenakht, Ouarzazate, Morocco- 6.3 cm

Cobaltoan Calcite, Agoudal Mine, Bou Azzer District, Tazenakht, Ouarzazate, Morocco – 12.0 cm

Cobaltoan Calcite, Agoudal Mine, Bou Azzer District, Tazenakht, Ouarzazate, Morocco – 5.3 cm

Cobaltoan Calcite, Agoudal Mine, Bou Azzer District, Tazenakht, Ouarzazate, Morocco – 7.9 cm

Cobaltoan Calcite, Agoudal Mine, Bou Azzer District, Tazenakht, Ouarzazate, Morocco – 5.9 cm

Cobaltoan Calcite, Agoudal Mine, Bou Azzer District, Tazenakht, Ouarzazate, Morocco – 4.5 cm

Erythrite, Bou Azzer District, Tazenakht, Ouarzazate, Morocco – 9.8 cm

Erythrite, Bou Azzer District, Tazenakht, Ouarzazate, Morocco
Field of view 2.0 cm

Erythrite, Bou Azzer District, Tazenakht, Ouarzazate, Morocco
Field of view 3.0 cm

Erythrite, Bou Azzer District, Tazenakht, Ouarzazate, Morocco – 4.6 cm

Erythrite, Bou Azzer District, Tazenakht, Ouarzazate, Morocco – 5.0 cm

Erythrite, Bou Azzer District, Tazenakht, Ouarzazate, Morocco
Field of view 4.5 cm

Erythrite, Bou Azzer District, Tazenakht, Ouarzazate, Morocco – 6.8 cm

Erythrite, Bou Azzer District, Tazenakht, Ouarzazate, Morocco
Field of view 3.0 cm

Gersdorffite, Aït Ahmane Mine, Bou Azzer, Tazenakht, Ouarzazate Province, Morocco – 4.6 cm

Skutterudite, Bouismas Mine, Bou Azzer, Tazenakht, Ouarzazate Province, Morocco – 6.1 cm

Skutterudite, Bouismas Mine, Bou Azzer, Tazenakht, Ouarzazate Province, Morocco – 4.5 cm

I’ve added a few colourful new specimens in this Morocco Update (click here).  This update includes some particularly fine and unusual pieces, including a super azurite-malachite from the Tasalart Mine, Tafraout, exceptional fluorites from Sidi Said, hot pink cobaltoan dolomites, a glowing jewel of a cobaltoan calcite from the Agoudal Mine in the Bou Azzer district, a mirror-bright skutterudite from the Bouismas Mine and a beautiful, classic twinned cerussite from Touissit.

 Azurite and malachite pseudomorphs after azurite, Tazalart Mine, Tafraout, Tiznit Province, Morocco
Field of view 4.5 cm

Fluorite, Chebka Sidi Said, Midelt, Khenifra Province, Morocco – 4.o cm

Fluorite with quartz, Chebka Sidi Said, Midelt, Khenifra Province, Morocco – 5.2 cm

Dolomite, var. cobaltoan dolomite, Agoudal Mine, Bou Azzer District
Tazenakht, Ouarzazate Province, Morocco – 5.7 cm

Dolomite, var. cobaltoan dolomite, Agoudal Mine, Bou Azzer District
Tazenakht, Ouarzazate Province, Morocco
Field of view – 3.0 cm

Calcite, var. cobaltoan calcite, Agoudal Mine, Bou Azzer District
Tazenakht, Ouarzazate Province, Morocco – 13.7 cm

Calcite, var. cobaltoan calcite, Agoudal Mine, Bou Azzer District,
Tazenakht, Ouarzazate Province, Morocco
Field of view 2.2 cm

Calcite, var. cobaltoan calcite, Agoudal Mine, Bou Azzer District
Tazenakht, Ouarzazate Province, Morocco
Field of view – 3.0 cm

Calcite, var. cobaltoan calcite, Agoudal Mine, Bou Azzer District
Tazenakht, Ouarzazate Province, Morocco
Field of view – 2.5 cm

Skutterudite, Bouismas Mine, Bou Azzer District
Tazenakht, Ouarzazate Province, Morocco
Field of view – 2.5 cm

Quartz on Chalcedony, Sidi Rahal, El Kelaa des Sraghna Province, Morocco
Field of view – 3.0 cm

Quartz var. Amethyst, Sidi Rahal, El Kelaa des Sraghna Province, Morocco
Field of view – 5.0 cm

Cerussite, Touissit, Jerada Province, Oriental Region, Morocco – 3.1 cm