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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

61. Scheelite and Quartz

Artifact (mineral) uoadl:202807

Unit:

Μουσείο Ορυκτολογίας και Πετρολογίας

Call number:

D62 (22)

Place of origin:

Zinnwald (Altenberg) / Saxony, Germany

Description:

A primary mineral commonly found as a component of contact-metamorphic tactite; in high-temperature hydrothermal veins and greisen; in granitic pegmatites and medium-temperature hydrothermal veins; in alluvial deposits.

62. Huebnerite

Artifact (mineral) uoadl:202809

Unit:

Μουσείο Ορυκτολογίας και Πετρολογίας

Call number:

D62 (30)

Place of origin:

Colorado, U.S.A.

63. Garnet var. Almandine

Artifact (mineral) uoadl:202814

Unit:

Μουσείο Ορυκτολογίας και Πετρολογίας

Call number:

D65 (6)

Place of origin:

Bodo, Norway

Description:

Most common garnet. Occurs in metamorphic and pegmatitic rocks.

64. Zoisite

Artifact (mineral) uoadl:202833

Unit:

Μουσείο Ορυκτολογίας και Πετρολογίας

Call number:

D25 (22)

Place of origin:

Pustertal / Tyrol, Austria

Description:

Medium grade regionally metamorphosed rocks, eclogites, blueschist facies metamorphic rocks.

65. Hemimorphite

Artifact (mineral) uoadl:202837

Unit:

Μουσείο Ορυκτολογίας και Πετρολογίας

Call number:

D25 (28)

Place of origin:

Nertsinsk / Baikal, Siberia, ex U.S.S.R.

Description:

Secondary mineral in the weathered portions of zinc deposits.

66. Helvite

Artifact (mineral) uoadl:202840

Unit:

Μουσείο Ορυκτολογίας και Πετρολογίας

Call number:

D25 (33)

Place of origin:

Saxony, Germany

67. Melilite

Artifact (mineral) uoadl:202844

Unit:

Μουσείο Ορυκτολογίας και Πετρολογίας

Call number:

D25 (34)

Place of origin:

Vesuvius, Italy

68. Goethite

Artifact (mineral) uoadl:203364

Unit:

Μουσείο Ορυκτολογίας και Πετρολογίας

Call number:

D55 (24)

Place of origin:

Kamariza / Lavrion, Greece

Description:

Common weathering product, primary hydrothermal mineral, bog and marine environments.

69. Fluorite

Artifact (mineral) uoadl:203369

Unit:

Μουσείο Ορυκτολογίας και Πετρολογίας

Call number:

D55 (45)

Place of origin:

Kamariza / Lavrion, Grece

Description:

Fluorire cubes with brown scorodite crystals. Fluorite is a common gangue mineral in the Lavrion carbonate-replacement Pb-Zn-Ag-Au deposit. It is usually associated with quartz and galena. Fluorite crystals up to 20 cm. Variety of colours range from light blue to purple and green.

70. Omphacite

Artifact (mineral) uoadl:203301

Unit:

Μουσείο Ορυκτολογίας και Πετρολογίας

Call number:

D35 (15)

Place of origin:

Hof / Bavaria, Germany

Description:

A primary constituent of the rock Eclogite.

71. Rhodonite

Artifact (mineral) uoadl:203304

Unit:

Μουσείο Ορυκτολογίας και Πετρολογίας

Call number:

D35 (30)

Place of origin:

Devonshire, U.K.

Description:

Manganese deposits formed by hydrothermal, contact or regional metamorphic, and sedimentary processes.

72. Rhodonite

Artifact (mineral) uoadl:203309

Unit:

Μουσείο Ορυκτολογίας και Πετρολογίας

Call number:

D35 (31)

Place of origin:

Kapnik, Romania

Description:

Manganese deposits formed by hydrothermal, contact or regional metamorphic, and sedimentary processes.

73. Diopside

Artifact (mineral) uoadl:203314

Unit:

Μουσείο Ορυκτολογίας και Πετρολογίας

Call number:

D36 (23)

Place of origin:

Tyrol, Austria

74. Chalcedony

Artifact (mineral) uoadl:203351

Unit:

Μουσείο Ορυκτολογίας και Πετρολογίας

Call number:

D52 (25)

Place of origin:

Soufli / Thrace, Greece

Description:

Rose-coloured chalcedony in botrioydal form. In this area the paragenesis includes transparent quartz, amethyst and zeolites in epithermal veins crosscutting submarine dacitic lavas.

75. Azurite with Calcite

Artifact (mineral) uoadl:203354

Unit:

Μουσείο Ορυκτολογίας και Πετρολογίας

Call number:

D53 (41)

Place of origin:

Kamariza / Lavrion, Greece

Description:

Azurite overgrown on limonite pseudomorph after calcite and associated with a second calcite generation. Samples from Cristiana mine in Kamariza area.

76. Calcite and Limonite

Artifact (mineral) uoadl:203358

Unit:

Μουσείο Ορυκτολογίας και Πετρολογίας

Call number:

D55 (15)

Place of origin:

Lavrion, Greece

Description:

Limonite pseudomorph after calcite and associated with white calcite.

77. Pyrolusite

Artifact (mineral) uoadl:203362