Mineral Specimens with Mixite

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MD-215142 - Mixite - - Archived
Lavrion (Laurion; Laurium) District, Attikí (Attica; Attika) Prefecture, Greece
small cabinet, 6.8 x 5.0 x 3.6 cm.
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Mixite from Lavrion (Laurion; Laurium) District, Attikí (Attica; Attika) Prefecture, Greece [db_pics/mdpics/MD-215142b.jpg]

6.8 x 5.0 x 3.6 cm. Mixite is a rare bismuth copper arsenate, and from Laurium is not in itself rare...but it is often found only as sparse microcrystalline material on large plates, and seldom as concentrated crystal clusters like you see here. This attractive turquoise-colored cluster of mixite crystals is nearly 2 cm, and winds attractively down the matrix. Unusually rich for this locality, but also for mixite from any other place as well.

MD-60845 - Cuprian Adamite - - Archived
Kamariza Mines (Kamareza Mines), Agios Konstantinos [St Constantine] (Kamariza), Lavrion District Mines, Lavrion (Laurion; Laurium) District, Attikí (Attica; Attika) Prefecture, G
cabinet, 9.7 x 2.3 x 2.0 cm
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Cuprian Adamite from Kamariza Mines (Kamareza Mines), Agios Konstantinos [St Constantine] (Kamariza), Lavrion District Mines, Lavrion (Laurion; Laurium) District, Attikí (Attica; Attika) Prefecture, G [db_pics/mdpics/MD-60845a.jpg]

A BEAUTIFUL AND STRIKING specimen of vugs and faces of a layered, gossan matrix lined with sparkly, spherules of forest-green Cuprian Adamite from the famous Kamareza Mines at Laurium, Greece. 9.7 x 2.3 x 2.0 cm

RARE-09-32 - Mixite - $ 600
Laurion, Attika, Greece
small cabinet, 6.8 x 5.0 x 3.6 cm
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Mixite from Laurion, Attika, Greece [db_pics/pics/rare-09-32b.jpg]

Mixite is a rare bismuth copper arsenate, and from Laurium is not in itself rare...but it is often found only as sparse microcrystalline material on large plates, and seldom as concentrated crystal clustres like you see here. This attractive turquoise-colored cluster of mixite crystals is nearly 2 cm, and winds attractively down the matrix. Unusually rich for this locality, but also for mixite from any other place as well.


  -  3 specimens selected


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