Touissit

The Touissit district lies in eastern Morocco near Oujda, close to the Algerian border. Its lead and zinc ores in Jurassic dolomite were mined on a large scale from the 1920s through most of the 20th century; many of the old workings are flooded today. The oxidized ores made Touissit a classic for collectors: azurite in deep blue crystals, cerussite in colorless, lustrous V-shaped twins, and yellow anglesite on galena, with vanadinite, phosgenite and wulfenite in smaller amounts.