phosphate-bearing

Updated: July 14, 2026

Here already, at the station settlement, there is more life than in Gafsa, though the surroundings are decidedly unpropitious a waterless plain, with low hills in the foreground, phosphate-bearing, and wondrously tinted in rose and heliotrope. There are respectable stores here, very different from the shops of Gafsa.

Norman Douglas - Fountains in the Sand : Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia