Mine detail: Djebel Aouan

Previously called 'Djebel Aouam'

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Location: Meknes, Morocco, Africa
Lat / long: 33.16618, -5.4983
dep_id: 10231739
mas_id: 7140210003
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Lead, Silver, Zinc
Minor mineral: Copper
Operation type: Underground
Development status: Producer
other_matl: Calcite, Galena, Quartz, Silver, Sphalerite
work_type: Underground
Reporter: Difrancesco, Carl A.
Year first produced: 1960
disc_yr: 1200
References:
  • Deposit:: *CRU MONITOR, FEB. 1994, P.7.
  • Deposit:: COMPAGNIE ROYALE ASTURIENNE DES MINES, RAPPORT ANNUEL,
  • Deposit:: 1975-1979.
  • Deposit:: DE KUN, THE MINERAL RESOURCES OF AFRICA, 1965, P. 46.
  • Deposit:: GUESSOUS, A., THE MAJOR LEAD-ZINC PRODUCTING MINES IN
  • Deposit:: MOROCCO: LEAD AND ZINC, VOL. 1, AIME WORLD SYMPOSIUM
  • Deposit:: ON MINING AND METALLURGY, 1970, PP. 195-203.
  • Reserve-Resource:: E&MJ INTERNATIONAL DIRECTORY OF MINING, 1991
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