Sounion Mine No. 19, Cato Sounio mines, Sounion, Lavreotiki, East Attica, Attica, Greece

Nice colorless sparys of Nesquehonite. Picture width is 2,5mm.

© Elmar Lackner 2009

Crystals of (meta-)sideronatrite (depending on outside temperature and humidity).

© Branko Rieck

Nice light blue kapellasite from the type locality

© Branko Rieck

Well-formed crystals of metasideronatrite (SXRD- and EDS-analysed) from the first discovery of this mineral from the Lavrion mining district. This material was described in: Kolitsch, U., Rieck, B., Brandstätter, F., Schreiber, F., Fabritz, K. H., Blaß, G. & Gröbner, J. (2014): Neufunde aus dem altem Bergbau und den Schlacken von Lavrion ...

© K.H. Fabritz

FOV 2mm light green morenosite included in white aragonite from the locality that yielded great nesquehonite specimens.

© Branko Rieck

Blue-green masses of takovite with some smithsonite crystallizing in vugsö Picture width 15 mm.

© Elmar Lackner 2005

Collection Miguel Ángel F. Périz and photograph Juan Miguel.

© Branko Rieck

Transparent prismatic nesquehonite with minute nickelhexahydrite dots. Collection and photo: Stephan Wolfsried. Sony Alpha 7R ii, bellows, Mitutoyo 20x, aperture, Raynox DCR-250 retro, Stack-Master linear actor, stack shot control.

© Stephan Wolfsried 12/2017

SEM micrograph (BSE) of sharp, pseudohexagonal tabular natrojarosite crystals. Representative sample of golden brown glittering masses several metres in size.

© Uwe Kolitsch

SEM micrograph (BSE) of sharp, pseudohexagonal tabular natrojarosite crystals. Representative sample of golden brown glittering masses several metres in size.

© Uwe Kolitsch

Yellowish, lath-shaped metasideronatrite crystals on crusts of brown-yellow natrojarosite (both XRD- and EDS-analysed). Collection Branko Rieck, photo Harald Schillhammer.

© Harald Schillhammer

Transparent prismatic nesquehonite. Collection and photo: Stephan Wolfsried. Sony Alpha 7R ii, bellows, Mitutoyo 20x, aperture, Raynox DCR-250 retro, Stack-Master linear actor, stack shot control.

© Stephan Wolfsried 12/2017

Bindheimite as a porous pseudomorph after bournonite. Found 2011 by myself.

Sheaf-like colourless fluorapatite aggregate (ca. 0.8 mm) on limonite. The brown-red aggregate on the upper left is a pseudomorph after an unknown precursor mineral. This material was described in: Rieck, B., Kolitsch, U., Voudouris, P., Giester, G., Tzeferis, P. (2022): Neubestimmungen aus dem Bergbaubezirk Lavrion, Griechenland. ...

© Uwe Kolitsch

SEM micrograph (BSE mode) of an aggregate of subparallel hexagonal prisms of fluorapatite. For a colour photo of similar aggregates see https://www.mindat.org/photo-1324515.html This material was described in: Rieck, B., Kolitsch, U., Voudouris, P., Giester, G., Tzeferis, P. (2022): Neubestimmungen aus dem Bergbaubezirk Lavrion, Griechenland. ...

© Uwe Kolitsch

Colorless platy hexagonal crystals.

© Italo Campostrini

SEM image of a tiny fragment of the specimen from the main picture. The image was taken with a JEOL SEM/EDX of the Institute of Mineralogy and Crystallography of the University of Vienna with the much appreciated help of Dr. Michael A. Götzinger. Size information included in the picture.

© Branko Rieck

Bubbly to botryoidal crystals/crystalline crust of dypingite (easily confused with brianyoungite), field of view approx. 3 mm, shot at 38X. A. Plante collection.

© 2002 by Alan Plante. All rights reserved.

Field of view is 7mm. Photographer and collection O. Dziallas

© O. Dziallas 2005

FOV 5mm Sep.2000

© Branko Rieck

Needles of kapellasite. Brent Thorne specimen and photograph.

© Brent Thorne

Pale-blue mass of Takovite. Size: 2,5 x 2 cm Collection and photo: Arliguie M

© Arliguie M

Picture width is 5mm. Pale green masses of Morenosite.

© Elmar Lackner 2007

Blue acicular xls of Kapellasite. Field of view 6 mm. Specimen and photo Leon Hupperichs.

© Leon Hupperichs

FOV 12mm Aug.1994

© Branko Rieck

Smithsonite totally covering fluorite crystals. The yellow color of smithsonite is due to μm scale greenockite inclusions detected using SEM-EDS. Size of sample: 5x3,7x3,5 cm Self collected on August 2011.

© Michael Samouhos lavrionminerals.com

Dendritic, intense blue sky to turquoise Kapellasite with dark green spheroidal Paratacamite, from the TL. 4x3 mm the field in photo. In my personal Laurion Suite. Photo Simone Citon.

© Simone Citon

FOV 8mm

© Branko Rieck

White needles of artinite and an undefined light blue mineral. FOV: 1.5mm

© Branko Rieck

SEM image of a tiny fragment of the specimen from the main picture. The image was taken with a JEOL SEM/EDX of the Institute of Mineralogy and Crystallography of the University of Vienna with the much appreciated help of Dr. Michael A. Götzinger. Size information included in the picture.

© Branko Rieck

Multiply twinned marcasite Nikon D200, Zerene Stacker FOV: 5mm

© Branko Rieck

Picture width 3 mm. Collection and foto Stephan Wolfsried

© Stephan Wolfsried 10/2007

Field of view 4 mm.

© Leon Hupperichs

FOV 1,5mm

© Branko Rieck

FOV 2mm

© Branko Rieck

Two very transparent fluorite crystals (1 cm each) and some smaller on matrix. Water-clear fluorite specimens are rare in Lavrion and the world's best specimens come from Dalnegorsk. Self collected on September 2011.

© Michael Samouhos lavrionminerals.com

Crude but typical Kapellasite from TL. Picture width is 2,5mm.

© Elmar Lackner 2008

Field of view 4 mm. Specimen and photo Leon Hupperichs.

© Leon Hupperichs

blue Aurichalcite with colorless Smithsonite; Field of view: 10 mm.

© Daniel Lunau

Two cubes of boleite on white calcite FOV: 1.5mm

© Branko Rieck

Platy steel gray barite in “roses” on calcite. FOV: 7mm

© Branko Rieck

Dypingite (as labelled, but remains "questionable" to me) Field is 2.1mm large Zeiss luminar 25mm on bellows + nikon D5100. Combine Z Photo & collection Chollet Pascal (# 4162)

© Chollet Pascal

FOV 5mm Aug.2004

© Branko Rieck

Red quartz crystals (probably colored by hematite inclusions) on gossan matrix. FOV: 2mm

© Branko Rieck

Gordaite crystals Field is 1,85mm large Zeiss luminar 25mm on bellows + nikon D5100. Combine Z Photo & collection Chollet Pascal (# 4163)

© Chollet Pascal

Paratacamite (or possibly clinoatacamite) spherules (visual identification + HCl test to exclude carbonate) Field is 2,6mm large Zeiss Luminar 25mm on bellows + Nikon D5100. Combine Z Obtained From J.-V. Coureau Photo & collection Chollet Pascal (# 5615)

© Chollet Pascal

FOV 2.4x1.6mm. Collection C. Mavris. Photo D. Cericola

Elongated blue crystals of bobkingite (SXRD-analysed) with greenish herbertsmithite. This specimen is a present from Heinz Fabritz. Photo Harry Schillhammer. This photo was originally published in: Kolitsch, U., Rieck, B., Brandstätter, F., Schreiber, F., Fabritz, K. H., Blaß, G. & Gröbner, J. (2014): Neufunde aus dem alten Bergbau und ...

© Harald Schillhammer

An extreme rarity at Lavrion: pyromorphite (PXRD- and EDS-analysed by Uwe Kolitsch). Collection and photo Karl Heinz Fabritz.

© Karl Heinz Fabritz

Kapellasite on matrix Field of view mm 3x2 Germano Fretti photo Fabio Brignoli collection

© Germano Fretti

Thin needles of atacamite pierce beads of claringbullite. Dark blue crystals of diaboleite. This type of occurrence was described in LAPIS 7-8/1999.

© Branko Rieck

Beads of green claringullite with diaboleite. The claringbullite covers needles of atacamite.

© Branko Rieck

Aragonite as an iron-flower at the gallery, October 2011.

Aragonite - grown in the mine, October 2011.

SEM photo of lath-shaped metasideronatrite crystals. This material was described in: Kolitsch, U., Rieck, B., Brandstätter, F., Schreiber, F., Fabritz, K. H., Blaß, G. & Gröbner, J. (2014): Neufunde aus dem altem Bergbau und den Schlacken von Lavrion (I). Mineralien-Welt 25 (1), 60-75 (in German).

© Uwe Kolitsch

Small, blue crystals of SXRD-confirmed diaboleite with clear glassy paralaurionite. Also on this specimen but not visible in this view is laurionite.

© Branko Rieck

FOV 6mm Aug.2004

© Branko Rieck

Width of field is 1.8 mm. Collection and photo Jesse Crawford. Equipment Nikon D-100 digital camera on a Zeiss standard microscope frame using a Leitz 5.6x objective and an Olympus 2.5x projective ocular. Blue green kapellasite microcrystals on matrix.

© 2010 by Jesse Crawford

3.0 x 2.5 x 1.5 cm

© Maggie Wilson

Dendritic, intense blue sky to turquoise Kapellasite with dark green spheroidal Paratacamite, from the TL. 4x3 mm the field in photo. In my personal Laurion Suite. Photo Simone Citon.

© Simone Citon

Picture width 3 mm. Collection and foto Stephan Wolfsried

© Stephan Wolfsried 10/2007

Deep apple green botryoidal smithsonite in small balls to 0.7 cm completely coating matrix of fluorite and calcite. Some calcite coating, reduces luster. 7x6x2.5 cm. Locality per Wolfgang Wendell, former specimen owner. Ex Nikos Loukas.

© Bill Dameron

Dendritic, intense blue sky to turquoise Kapellasite with dark green spheroidal Paratacamite, from the TL. 8x6 mm the field in photo. In my personal Laurion Suite. Photo Simone Citon.

© Simone Citon

green xx of Gordaite on Matrix Photo and collection: Hans-Jürgen Haas

5.8x5x3.5cms

© Christos Spiromitros & Greekrocks.com

F o v mm 2,50 x mm 3,50 Photo with Canon Eos 600 D + Bellows + Rodenstock Rodagon 35 mm 1:4,0 reversed Photo and collection Giovanni Scapin

Sony Alpha 7R ii, bellows, Mitutoyo 20x, aperture, Raynox DCR-250 retro, Stack-Master linear actor, stack shot control. Minute transparent aragonite balls. Collection and photo: Stephan Wolfsried.

© Stephan Wolfsried 12/2017

Pyrite crystals Field of view mm 2,5x2 Germano Fretti photo Fabio Brignoli collection (roccelllans)

© Germano Fretti

dimension area mm. 4 x 4 photo and collection Luigi Chiappino

This specimen is in the collection of Vassilis Stergiou

© Alexandros Frantzis

Diaboleite on matrix. Photographed by, and in the collection of Dan Costian.

© Dan Costian

Olive green baryte with white aragonite from Ag. varvara sounion.

© Tsolakos Alkiviadis

dimension area mm. 6 x 6 photo and collection Luigi Chiappino

Nice light blue kapellasite from the type locality.

© Branko Rieck