My 5 favorite minerals from Lavrion p.1 -ADAMITE-

Welcome to a series of posts that I will give you some of my favorite minerals from Lavrion mining district. First one on my list is Adamite, this is probably one of the most common minerals on Lavrion other than Calcite.

Adamite comes in a huge variety of colors and shapes or sizes, from micro mount size to up to a few centimeters, my collection has many many samples of Adamite and its close relatives Zincolivenite and Olivenite that sometimes can not be distinguished from each other but only with chemical analysis.

Adamite from 1st level of Christiana mine (132) from a small find with great Goethite in the mix

FOV: ~1mm

One of my most treasured specimen is the above one as this is Adamite on the top of a "Dogtooth" Calcite that comes from a small find on Hilarion mine, the interesting thing on that specimen is that Calcite on parts of the specimen is covered partly by Smithsonite.

FOV: ~2.5mm

This specimen comes from an old find of Pinwheel shaped Adamites with great color and fine UV reaction that matched some of the best Adamites in the World.

FOV: ~9cm

Fine "Balls" of Adamite together with beautiful Agardite from a small tunnel connecting Christiana (132) 1st and 2nd levels.

FOV: ~3mm

All information above come from the webpage of Dr. Branko Riek on Lavrion minerals

www.lavrion.gr 

All pictures above come from specimens of my collection and are photographed by me.