# Ahouli

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Abanonded mining village in Drâa-Tafilalet, Morocco

Ahouli Abanonded mining village Ahouli Coordinates: 32°50′19″N 4°34′32″W / 32.8386°N 4.5756°W / 32.8386; -4.5756 Country Morocco Region Drâa-Tafilalet Province Midelt Province

**Ahouli** (or Aouli) is an abandoned mining village in central Morocco. Once one of the most important [lead](/source/Lead) deposits in Morocco,[1][2][3] the nearby Ahouli and [Mibladen](/source/Mibladen) mines are now abandoned. It is located on a valley along upper Moulouya river, about 25 kilometers north from [Midelt](/source/Midelt).[4] For more than ten years, thousands of illegal miners risked their lives in its galleries daily.[5][6]

The French company [Penarroya](/source/Sociedad_Minera_y_Metal%C3%BArgica_de_Pe%C3%B1arroya) operated the sites from 1928 to the 1960s,[7][8][9] employing hundreds of Moroccan workers[10][11][12] and producing tens of thousands of tons of lead annually, most of which was exported to France.[13][14]

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** [*Bulletin économique et social du Maroc*](https://books.google.com/books?id=2fYnAAAAMAAJ&q=MIBLADEN) (in French). Société d'études économiques, sociales, et statistiques. 1956.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Mines, United States Bureau of (1951). [*Materials Survey: Lead, 1950*](https://books.google.com/books?id=MONFxhihJhUC&dq=aouli+mines&pg=RA4-PA43). U.S. Government Printing Office.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** Rausch, Donald O.; Cotterill, Carl Hayden (1970). [*AIME World Symposium on Mining & Metallurgy of Lead & Zinc: Mining and concentrating of lead and zinc, edited by D. O. Rausch and B. C. Mariacher*](https://books.google.com/books?id=dd42AQAAIAAJ&q=aouli+mines). American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** Ellingham, Mark (2001). [*The Rough Guide to Morocco*](https://books.google.com/books?id=1mhFb_pA_w8C&dq=aouli+mines&pg=PA252). Rough Guides. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-1-85828-601-3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-85828-601-3).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** Honnor, Julius (2012-08-21). [*Morocco Footprint Handbook*](https://books.google.com/books?id=LtXcAgAAQBAJ&dq=Ahouli&pg=PA176). Footprint Travel Guides. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-1-907263-31-6](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-907263-31-6).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** ["VIDÉO - Les mineurs clandestins d'Ahouli, au Maroc"](https://www.huffingtonpost.fr/2015/06/11/mineurs-maroc_n_7560580.html). *Le HuffPost* (in French). 2015-06-11. Retrieved 2021-12-29.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** Boahen, Albert Adu (1987). [*L'Afrique sous domination coloniale, 1880-1935*](https://books.google.com/books?id=xil95Lf6QcwC&dq=aouli+mines&pg=PA465) (in French). UNESCO. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-92-3-201713-0](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-92-3-201713-0).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-8)** Gallissot, René (1964). [*Le patronat européen au Maroc: action sociale, action politique, 1931-1942*](https://books.google.com/books?id=ldQsAQAAIAAJ&q=aouli+1926) (in French). Éditions techniques nord-africaines.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-9)** [*Foreign Minerals Quarterly: A Regional Review of Foreign Mineral Resources, Production, and Trade*](https://books.google.com/books?id=LiDlAAAAMAAJ&dq=aouli+1928&pg=RA4-PA84). The Branch. 1938.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-10)** Unions, World Federation of Trade (1967). [*Trade Union Press: International Bulletin of the Trade Union and Working Class Press*](https://books.google.com/books?id=d0lZAAAAYAAJ&q=aouli+mines).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-11)** Aouchar, Amina (2002). [*Colonisation et campagne berbère au Maroc*](https://books.google.com/books?id=jwpyAAAAMAAJ&q=MIBLADEN) (in French). Afrique Orient. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-9981-25-233-2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-9981-25-233-2).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-12)** [*Marchés tropicaux et méditerranéens*](https://books.google.com/books?id=0C8OAQAAMAAJ&q=aouli+mineurs) (in French). October 1971.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-13)** Mines, United States Bureau of (1955). [*Mineral Trade Notes*](https://books.google.com/books?id=fXVOAAAAMAAJ&dq=MIBLADEN+aouli%5C&pg=RA4-PA21). U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Mines.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-14)** Rausch, Donald O.; Cotterill, Carl Hayden (1970). [*AIME World Symposium on Mining & Metallurgy of Lead & Zinc: Mining and concentrating of lead and zinc, edited by D. O. Rausch and B. C. Mariacher*](https://books.google.com/books?id=dd42AQAAIAAJ&q=MIBLADEN+aouli). American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers.

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