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Title:
Minerals Collection
Description:
The collections of the Mineralogy and Petrology Museum were created by the Physiographic Company of Greece in 1835. From 1837 to 1858 the mineral collections were incorporated in the Geological and Paleontological Museum and in 1982 the Mineralogy and Petrology Museum became part of Geology Department of the University of Athens. The museum was re-opened in 2000, it is the oldest one in Greece and includes a) the systematic mineral collection, b) thematic mineral and gem collection, c) petrographic collections and d) ore collections. Nowadays the museum possesses more than 30.000 speciments of minerals and rocks most of them from historical localities, such as ex. U.S.S.R. and central Europe. The museum is being directed by Assistant Professor A. Katerinopoulos.
Time Coverage:
1835 till today
Access Policy:
The museum is being open all year round, Monday to Friday from 8.00 to 13.00. It remains closed during weekends, Christmas and Easter holidays and August
Persistent URL:
https://pergamos.lib.uoa.gr/uoa/dl/object/col_minerals
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369. Aurichalcite

Artifact (mineral) uoadl:207673
Unit:
Μουσείο Ορυκτολογίας και Πετρολογίας
Call number:
D54 (43)
Place of origin:
Sounio, Greece
Description:
Acicular crystals accosiated with smithsonite, formed by the supergene oxidation of sphalerite.

370. Diaspore

Artifact (mineral) uoadl:207635
Unit:
Μουσείο Ορυκτολογίας και Πετρολογίας
Call number:
C20
Place of origin:
Apiranthos / Naxos isl., Greece
Description:
Metamorphic and sedimentary bauxite ores. With other minerals in bauxite deposits

371. Fluorite

Artifact (mineral) uoadl:207649
Unit:
Μουσείο Ορυκτολογίας και Πετρολογίας
Call number:
C19
Place of origin:
Mega Livadi / Serifos isl., Greece
Description:
Low temperature vein deposits. Hydrothermal veins; cavities in sedimentary rocks; as a cementing material in sandstones; as hot springs deposits.Fluorite is found as a common gangue mineral in hydrothermal veins, especially those containing lead and zinc minerals. It is also found in some greisens, granites and high-temperature veins, and as a component of some marbles and other metamorphic rocks.

372. Barite

Artifact (mineral) uoadl:207654
Unit:
Μουσείο Ορυκτολογίας και Πετρολογίας
Call number:
C19
Place of origin:
Mega Livadi / Serifos isl., Greece
Description:
Sedimentary rocks and late gangue mineral in ore veins. Commonly found as a gangue mineral in metallic ore deposits of epithermal or mesothermal origin but it may also be found as lenses or replacement deposits in sedimentary rocks, both of hypogene and supergene origin.

373. Quartz (Prase) with Actinolite inclusion

Artifact (mineral) uoadl:207666
Unit:
Μουσείο Ορυκτολογίας και Πετρολογίας
Call number:
C19
Place of origin:
Avyssalos / Serifos isl., Greece
Description:
Green-colored quartz due to actinolite inclusions, accompanied by hematite roses both postdating hedenbergite skarn.

374. Gypsum

Artifact (mineral) uoadl:207589
Unit:
Μουσείο Ορυκτολογίας και Πετρολογίας
Call number:
C16
Place of origin:
Lavrion, Greece
Description:
Accicular gypsum crystals on limonite. Gypsum crystals in the Lavrion mines are up to 1 m long and accompanies other secondary minerals such as smithsonite, azurite, adamite, etc.

375. Glaucocerinite

Artifact (mineral) uoadl:207597
Unit:
Μουσείο Ορυκτολογίας και Πετρολογίας
Call number:
C16
Place of origin:
Kamareza / Lavrion, Greece
Description:
Blue-green colored botryoidal masses accompanied by gypsum.

376. Native Copper

Artifact (mineral) uoadl:207605
Unit:
Μουσείο Ορυκτολογίας και Πετρολογίας
Call number:
C23
Place of origin:
Chile
Description:
Cap rock of copper sulfide veins and in some types of volcanic rocks.

377. Scapolite (Meionite)

Artifact (mineral) uoadl:207613
Unit:
Μουσείο Ορυκτολογίας και Πετρολογίας
Call number:
C23
Place of origin:
Vesuvius, Italy
Description:
Metamorphosed rock.

378. Chalcocite

Artifact (mineral) uoadl:208474
Unit:
Μουσείο Ορυκτολογίας και Πετρολογίας
Call number:
A2
Place of origin:
Cornwall, U.K.
Description:
A secondary mineral in or near the oxidized zone of copper sulfide deposits.

379. Sphalerite

Artifact (mineral) uoadl:208477
Unit:
Μουσείο Ορυκτολογίας και Πετρολογίας
Call number:
A2
Place of origin:
In sulfide ore veins in all rock classes.
Description:
In sulfide ore veins in all rock classes.

380. Serpierite

Artifact (mineral) uoadl:208481
Unit:
Μουσείο Ορυκτολογίας και Πετρολογίας
Call number:
A3
Place of origin:
Lavrion, Greece
Description:
Secondary mineral found in altered smelter slags and oxidized sulfide veins.

381. Fluorite

Artifact (mineral) uoadl:208484
Unit:
Μουσείο Ορυκτολογίας και Πετρολογίας
Call number:
A3
Place of origin:
Lavrion, Greece
Description:
Low temperature vein deposits. Hydrothermal veins; cavities in sedimentary rocks; as a cementing material in sandstones; as hot springs deposits.Fluorite is found as a common gangue mineral in hydrothermal veins, especially those containing lead and zinc minerals. It is also found in some greisens, granites and high-temperature veins, and as a component of some marbles and other metamorphic rocks.

382. Aquamarine

Artifact (mineral) uoadl:208537
Unit:
Μουσείο Ορυκτολογίας και Πετρολογίας
Call number:
A6
Place of origin:
ex U.S.S.R.
Description:
Mainly granitic pegmatites. Commonly found in pegmatites. Red beryl is found in topaz rhyolites.

383. Siderite and Quartz

Artifact (mineral) uoadl:208512
Unit:
Μουσείο Ορυκτολογίας και Πετρολογίας
Call number:
A5
Place of origin:
Alps, France

384. Rhodochrosite

Artifact (mineral) uoadl:208519
Unit:
Μουσείο Ορυκτολογίας και Πετρολογίας
Call number:
A5
Place of origin:
Stratoni, Greece
Description:
Rhodochrosite overgrown by calcite, and accosiated with disseminated pyrite crystals. Rhodochrosite is a typical gangue mineral in the Chalkidiki mines and accompanies pyrite, sphalerite and galena. During the '60s crystals up to 50 cm were gauged from the upper levels of the mine.

385. Galena

Artifact (mineral) uoadl:208493
Unit:
Μουσείο Ορυκτολογίας και Πετρολογίας
Call number:
A3
Place of origin:
Lavrion, Greece
Description:
Lead sulfide ore veins, and disseminated in igneous and sedimentary rocks.it is found in ore veins with sphalerite, pyrite, chalcopyrite, fahlore etc., and in sedimentary rocks as beds or impregmentations.

386. Azurite - Cuprite - Malachite

Artifact (mineral) uoadl:208503
Unit:
Μουσείο Ορυκτολογίας και Πετρολογίας
Call number:
A3
Place of origin:
Lavrion, Greece

387. Corundum var. Sapphire

Artifact (mineral) uoadl:210829
Unit:
Μουσείο Ορυκτολογίας και Πετρολογίας
Call number:
E8
Place of origin:
Naxos isl., Greece
Description:
Sapphire crystals in plumasite composed of anorthite and tourmaline. Desilicified pegmatite (plumasite) formed by the intrusion of a pegmatite dike within an ultrabasic body. This rock type occurs near the contact between the migmatitic dome and the metamorphic cover of Naxos.

388. Chalcedony

Artifact (mineral) uoadl:210834
Unit:
Μουσείο Ορυκτολογίας και Πετρολογίας
Call number:
E8
Place of origin:
Petzofas / Lesbos isl., Greece
Description:
Blue chalcedony filling vug cavities in volcanic host rock. In this area chalcedony appears in stalactitic forms within gas vacuoles in perlitic rocks. Usually chalcedony is transformed into crystalline quartz.

 

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