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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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41. Wulfenite

Artifact (mineral) uoadl:141646
Unit:
Μουσείο Ορυκτολογίας και Πετρολογίας
Call number:
Ορυκτά από τα ορυχεία του Λαυρίου
D55 (28)
Place of origin:
Plaka/Lavrion, Greece
Description:
Tabular orange-colored wulfenite crystals on galena. This secondary lead-molybdenum mineral is found in Adami mine/Plaka, where a primary galena-rich ore has been oxidised into wulfenite, cerrusite and mimetite.

42. Beryl in Pegmatite

Artifact (mineral) uoadl:141647
Unit:
Μουσείο Ορυκτολογίας και Πετρολογίας
Call number:
D56 (21)
Place of origin:
Naxos isl. Greece
Description:
Beryl crystals are light green to blue colored and usually associated with topaz and tantalite. Pegmatite crosscutting the migmatitic dome of Naxos.

43. Barite

Artifact (mineral) uoadl:141648
Unit:
Μουσείο Ορυκτολογίας και Πετρολογίας
Call number:
Ορυκτά από τη Σέριφο
D56 (41)
Place of origin:
M. Livadi/Serifos isl., Greece
Description:
Barite rose on goethite. Barite and fluorite occur as gangue minerals in carbonate-replacement, base-metal sulfide ores, genetically related to a Miocene granodiorite intrusion.

44. Ilvaite

Artifact (mineral) uoadl:141649
Unit:
Μουσείο Ορυκτολογίας και Πετρολογίας
Call number:
Ορυκτά από τη Σέριφο
D56 (42)
Place of origin:
Koundouros/Serifos isl., Greece
Description:
Aggregate of prismatic ilvaite crystals. Hedenbergitic skarn at Koundouros bay/Serifos is famous for its largest ilvaite crystals ever found. Ilvaite is formed together with hedenbergite in the prograde skarn and is overgrown by the retrograde minerals, quartz and calcite.

45. Native Sulphur

Artifact (mineral) uoadl:141650
Unit:
Μουσείο Ορυκτολογίας και Πετρολογίας
Call number:
Native Elements
D57 (2)
Place of origin:
Sicily, Italy
Description:
Volcanic exhalations and bacterial reduction of sulfates in sediments.Usually formed from volcanic action - as a sublimate from volcanic gasses associated with realgar, cinnabar and other minerals. It is also found in some vein deposits and as an alteration product of sulphide minerals. It can also be formed biogenically - a major source being salt doems, where it has formed by the bacterial decomposition of calcium sulfate.

46. Native Tellurium

Artifact (mineral) uoadl:141651
Unit:
Μουσείο Ορυκτολογίας και Πετρολογίας
Call number:
Native Elements
D57 (8)
Place of origin:
Nagyag/Siebenburgen, Romania
Description:
Hydrothermal vein mineral.

47. Native Platinum

Artifact (mineral) uoadl:141652
Unit:
Μουσείο Ορυκτολογίας και Πετρολογίας
Call number:
Native Elements
D57 (17)
Place of origin:
Urals, ex. U.S.S.R
Description:
Mainly in grains and nuggets in alluvial deposits. Mafic and ultramafic rocks.

48. Native Gold

Artifact (mineral) uoadl:141653
Unit:
Μουσείο Ορυκτολογίας και Πετρολογίας
Call number:
Native Elements
D57 (19)
Place of origin:
Siebenburgen, Romania
Description:
Quartz veins and alluvial deposits.Gold occurs in significant amounts in three main types of deposits: veins of hydrothermal and related origin; in consolidated placer deposits, and in unconsolidated placer deposits. It may also occur in granitic pegmatites, in contact metamorphic deposits, and in hypo-thermal deposits. It is commonly found as disseminated grains in Quartz veins with Pyrite and other sulphides, or as rounded grains, flakes or nuggets in placer deposits and in streams and rivers.

49. Native Copper

Artifact (mineral) uoadl:141654
Unit:
Μουσείο Ορυκτολογίας και Πετρολογίας
Call number:
Native Elements
D57 (28)
Place of origin:
ex. U.S.S.R
Description:
Cap rock of copper sulfide veins and in some types of volcanic rocks.

50. Galena

Artifact (mineral) uoadl:141655
Unit:
Μουσείο Ορυκτολογίας και Πετρολογίας
Call number:
Sulfides
D58 (8)
Place of origin:
Freiberg/Saxony, Germany
Description:
Lead sulfide ore veins, and disseminated in igneous and sedimentary rocks.

51. Sphalerite

Artifact (mineral) uoadl:141656
Unit:
Μουσείο Ορυκτολογίας και Πετρολογίας
Call number:
Sulfides
D58 (15)
Place of origin:
Kapnik, Romania
Description:
In sulfide ore veins in all rock classes.

52. Molybdenite

Artifact (mineral) uoadl:141657
Unit:
Μουσείο Ορυκτολογίας και Πετρολογίας
Call number:
Sulfides
D58 (23)
Place of origin:
Washington, U.S.A
Description:
High temperature hydrothermal veins. Important in disseminated deposits of the porphyry type.

53. Zinkenite

Artifact (mineral) uoadl:141658
Unit:
Μουσείο Ορυκτολογίας και Πετρολογίας
Call number:
Sulfides
D58 (26)
Place of origin:
Wolfsberg, Germany
Description:
Constituent mineral in hydrothermal veins associated with base metal deposits.

54. Cobaltite

Artifact (mineral) uoadl:141659
Unit:
Μουσείο Ορυκτολογίας και Πετρολογίας
Call number:
Sulfides
D58 (29)
Place of origin:
Tunaberg, Sweden
Description:
High temperature hydrotherma deposits and contact metamorphic rocks.

55. Miargyrite

Artifact (mineral) uoadl:141660
Unit:
Μουσείο Ορυκτολογίας και Πετρολογίας
Call number:
Sulfides
D58 (30)
Place of origin:
Freiberg/Saxony, Germany
Description:
In low-temperature hydrothermal silver-bearing sulfide ores.

56. Corundum

Artifact (mineral) uoadl:141661
Unit:
Μουσείο Ορυκτολογίας και Πετρολογίας
Call number:
Oxides
D59 (3)
Place of origin:
Renfrew County/Ontario, Canada
Description:
Contact and regionally metamorphosed rocks. Silica-poor rocks, such as Nepheline-Syenites, alkali igneous undersaturated rocks, contact aureoles in altered aluminous shales, aluminous xenoliths in high temperature plutonic and hypabyssal rocks, metamorphosed bauxite deposits, and as a detrital material in sediments.

57. Jordanite

Artifact (mineral) uoadl:141662
Unit:
Μουσείο Ορυκτολογίας και Πετρολογίας
Call number:
Oxides
D58 (25)
Place of origin:
Lengenbach/Binntal, Wallis, Switzerland
Description:
In metamorphosed Pb-As occurrences in dolomite.

58. Hematite

Artifact (mineral) uoadl:141663
Unit:
Μουσείο Ορυκτολογίας και Πετρολογίας
Call number:
Oxides
D59 (13)
Place of origin:
St.Gotthard, Switzerland
Description:
Magmatic, hydrothermal, metamorphic and sedimentary.Large ore bodies of hematite are usually of sedimentary origin; also found in high-grade ore bodies in metamorphic rocks due to contact metasomatism, and occasionally as a sublimate on igneous extrusive rocks ("lavas") as a result ov volcanic activity. It is also found coloring soils red all over the planet...

59. Cassiterite

Artifact (mineral) uoadl:141664
Unit:
Μουσείο Ορυκτολογίας και Πετρολογίας
Call number:
Oxides
D59 (24)
Place of origin:
Cornwall, U.K.
Description:
Granite pegmatites and alluvial placer deposits.The primary ore of Tin, this mineral is found in hydrothermal veins and pegmatites associated with granite intrusions. Because of its durability it is also frequently found concentrated in alluvial placer deposits. In medium to high temperature hydrothermal veins andd greisens, alluvial placers.

60. Ilmenite

Artifact (mineral) uoadl:141665
Unit:
Μουσείο Ορυκτολογίας και Πετρολογίας
Call number:
Oxides
D59 (8)
Place of origin:
Miask/Orenburg, ex. U.S.S.R.
Description:
Common accessory mineral in igneous and metamorphic rocks. Commonly concentrated in placers as "black sand" deposits.Common accessory mineral in igneous rocks. Also occurs in placer deposits.

 

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