Moroccans track the stones of "meteorites" in the heart of the desert

On Saturday, May 19, the local authority informed the arrival of strangers to the area and rushed to the scene to find out the truth and find out the reasons for the presence of these uninvited visitors to discover that they had come to search for the "meteorites" stone.

A man in his sixth contract retired from the Royal Armed Forces and owns a shop for the traditional industry, came with two prospectors to the area after the news spread in Ouarzazate, says that the source of the news are some nomads who have passed through the region and heard the fall of Nizik in the region, Discover it and find some of its fragments. This news was grabbed by the mobile phones at lightning speed and carried to many destinations, which made everyone pilgrimage to this place and hope they do not have what they heard just a rumor that some of the fragments.

The diggers left their homes and went back there in their own way individually and groups of different age groups, young and old and sometimes minors. Some of them went with his friends and others carried his family, some of them selling and buying rare objects, and others were driven by their social and economic circumstances to embark on this journey to solve their material problems after finding the stone.

On trucks, buses and cars, their dreams led them to this part of the desert, united by the arid, dangerous and dangerous roads. As soon as they set foot in the area after being led from Ouarzazate, Zakoura, Tata, Zak, Rashidiya and Bouarfa, their connection to the rest of the world is cut off due to the lack of telephone coverage. Only the experienced professional traders stay by visiting the area from time to time to explore what they have found from stones and find out if they really cut off. Of the «meteorites» by examining the internal color, which is different from the black skin

Salam al-Salam and his three companions from Bouarfa insist that they will not return where they came from without finding their destination because, according to Abdel Salam, they have traveled hundreds of kilometers and are very hopeful that they forget hunger, the rough road and the weather. Dry. "We have not come for the pleasure or curiosity, but because our financial and social conditions are in crisis, most of us are working as if we are stuck with a sense of hope, which makes us cling to this thread of hope even if it is a mirage," says Abdel Salam.

To the limits of the past few days, the ill fortune still haunts them. Since their feet have reached this land, they have not been able to find a stone or access to information about the fragments of «meteor» which fell recently.

Sidi Ahmed, who came from Asa al-Zaq, told us that he collected many stones and stones and was thought to be meteorite stones, but he was disappointed by what one of the people from the mouth of Ezekid told him as ordinary stones. The news came down on him like a thunderbolt and his sense of disappointment became doubly expensive, because expenses are also increasing every day.

Some of them have lost their dreams in the desert and have become bored and returned from where they came, while others continue to search and excavate the surface of the earth and the stones in it to search under it. When they are destroyed in the atmosphere and fall on the high seas or become shrapnel when landing on The surface of the earth is buried in the interior, which leads them to dig to verify the nature of buried stones. According to one of the prospectors, the "meteor" room is covered by black crust, but inside it is green or blue.

As time passes, competition intensifies. Each team conceals what is found by the other team, especially when one finds small stones. The movement moves away from the laziness and brokers intervene with magnifiers to make sure the stone is actually a meteorite.

Eastern winds, sand storms and changes in the atmosphere between the severity of the cold forced the prospectors to put turbans on their heads and wear thick clothing that would protect them from the storms that were crawling over the place.

Only those who come from Rashidiyya, Ouarzazate, Bouarfa, Erfoud and Tata know this area well, since they were trained in exploration and research at first as amateur and then professional, according to many of them.

AED 1,000 per gram. That is the price of these "meteorites" that come from the meteoric belt between Mars and Jupiter, the Moon or Mars.

After the prospectors come the role of brokers, the most famous of which are Rashdiya, Ouarzazate, Zakoura and Tata who sell what the prospectors have brought to foreigners who are always willing to pay huge sums that multiply times and again when they reach foreign institutes, scientific and geological laboratories and museums.

The value of physical "meteorites" is determined by their scientific value. These stones are the subject of research and study in the development of extraterrestrial life and the search for whether there is actually life outside our planet.

"The amount obtained today, according to some of the people there, is two kilograms found in batches in sporadic quantities, not a single batch," said Abdel Rahman, a man of 60 years of age. "It is about 56 million centimes, but less than that discovered a few months ago." The largest number of them, according to many of them, was part of the Rashidiya team, whose members were silent and did not inform the local authority for reasons of fear of the agents of the Authority or fear of theft