Pergamos - Library and Information Center of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

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. Diaspore

Artifact (mineral) uoadl:141666

Unit:

Μουσείο Ορυκτολογίας και Πετρολογίας

Call number:

Hydroxides
D59 (30)

Place of origin:

ex. U.S.S.R.

Description:

Metamorphic and sedimentary bauxite ores. With other minerals in bauxite deposits

62. Calcite on Galena

Artifact (mineral) uoadl:141667

Unit:

Μουσείο Ορυκτολογίας και Πετρολογίας

Call number:

Carbonate Minerals
D60 (1)

Place of origin:

Bleiberg, Austria

Description:

Calcite:Found in sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic rocks.Found in most geologic settings and as a later forming replacement mineral in most other environments in one form or another, it is most common as massive material in limestones and marbles. It forms as chemical sedimentary deposits as limestone, can be regionally or contact metamorphosed into marbles and rarely forms igneous rocks (carbonatites). Also is a common gangue mineral in hydrothermal deposits. Galena:Lead sulfide ore veins, and disseminated in igneous and sedimentary rocks.In ore veins with sphalerite, pyrite, chalcopyrite, fahlore etc., and in sedimentary rocks as beds or impregmentations.

63. Malachite

Artifact (mineral) uoadl:141668

Unit:

Μουσείο Ορυκτολογίας και Πετρολογίας

Call number:

Carbonate Minerals
D60 (25)

Place of origin:

Tagilsk/Urals, ex. U.S.S.R.

Description:

Secondary mineral in the oxidized zones of copper ore deposits.It is the most common secondary mineral found in the oxidized zones of copper deposits.

64. Azurite

Artifact (mineral) uoadl:141669

Unit:

Μουσείο Ορυκτολογίας και Πετρολογίας

Call number:

Carbonate Minerals
D60 (30)

Place of origin:

Altai/Siberia, ex. U.S.S.R.

Description:

Secondary mineral in the oxidized zone of copper ore deposits.Found largely in the oxidized portions of copper deposits, it is a secondary mineral formed by the action of carbonated water acting on copper-containing minerals, or from Cu-containing solutions, such as CuSO^4 or CuCl^2 reacting with limestones.

65. Gypsum

Artifact (mineral) uoadl:141670

Unit:

Μουσείο Ορυκτολογίας και Πετρολογίας

Call number:

Sulfate Minerals
D61 (2)

Place of origin:

Mansfeld, Germany

Description:

Sedimentary evaporite deposits.Commonest of the sulphate minerals, gypsum is found in marine evaporites, in caves where the air is dry enough to allow it to be deposited and remain, at fumaroles, and in the oxidized zones of sulfide deposits on occasion.

66. Barite

Artifact (mineral) uoadl:141671

Unit:

Μουσείο Ορυκτολογίας και Πετρολογίας

Call number:

Sulfate Minerals
D61 (18)

Place of origin:

Felsobanya, Romania

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.

67. Celestine

Artifact (mineral) uoadl:141672

Unit:

Μουσείο Ορυκτολογίας και Πετρολογίας

Call number:

Sulfate Minerals
D61 (22)

Place of origin:

Poland

Description:

Sedimentary rocks. Occurs mainly in sedimentary rocks such as bedded deposits of gypsum and halite; also in bedded limestone and dolomite, in cavities.

68. Crocoite

Artifact (mineral) uoadl:141673

Unit:

Μουσείο Ορυκτολογίας και Πετρολογίας

Call number:

Chromate Minerals
D62 (8)

Place of origin:

Urals, ex. U.S.S.R.

Description:

Secondary mineral of oxidized lead veins infiltrated by Cr bearing fluids.Uncommon secondary mineral in lead deposits associated with chromium bearing rocks.

69. Wulfenite

Artifact (mineral) uoadl:141674

Unit:

Μουσείο Ορυκτολογίας και Πετρολογίας

Call number:

Molybdate Minerals
D62 (14)

Place of origin:

Bleiberg, Austria

Description:

Secondary lead mineral.Secondary mineral in weathering zone of lead deposits.

70. Scheelite

Artifact (mineral) uoadl:141675

Unit:

Μουσείο Ορυκτολογίας και Πετρολογίας

Call number:

Tungstate Minerals
D62 (17)

Place of origin:

Saxony, Germany

Description:

Contact metamorphic tactites, high temperature hydrothermal veins and greisens, granitic pegmatites; alluvial deposits.

71. Pyromorphite

Artifact (mineral) uoadl:141676

Unit:

Μουσείο Ορυκτολογίας και Πετρολογίας

Call number:

Phosphate Minerals
D63 (2)

Place of origin:

Saxony, Germany

Description:

Secondary mineral found in the oxidized zones of lead ore deposits.

72. Libethenite

Artifact (mineral) uoadl:141677

Unit:

Μουσείο Ορυκτολογίας και Πετρολογίας

Call number:

Phosphate Minerals
D63 (14)

Place of origin:

Lubietova, Czech. Republic

Description:

Libethenite is a secondary copper phosphate mineral found in the oxidized zone of copper ore deposits.

73. Wavellite

Artifact (mineral) uoadl:141678

Unit:

Μουσείο Ορυκτολογίας και Πετρολογίας

Call number:

Phosphate Minerals
D63 (17)

Place of origin:

Montgomery Co./Arkansas, U.S.A.

Description:

Secondary mineral common in aluminous low-grade metamorphic rocks and phosphate rocks. A secondary mineral of aluminous low-grade metamorphic rocks, in phosphate and limonitic deposits; more rarely as a late-forming hydrothermal vein mineral.

74. Mimetite (var. Campylite)

Artifact (mineral) uoadl:141679

Unit:

Μουσείο Ορυκτολογίας και Πετρολογίας

Call number:

Arsenate Minerals
D63 (29)

Place of origin:

Cumberland, U.K.

Description:

Secondary mineral in lead ores. It is a secondary mineral found in the oxidized zones of lead mineral deposits, and in other settings where lead and arsenic occur together.

75. Fluorite

Artifact (mineral) uoadl:141680

Unit:

Μουσείο Ορυκτολογίας και Πετρολογίας

Call number:

Halide Minerals
D64 (5)

Place of origin:

Saxony, Germany

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.

76. Carnalite

Artifact (mineral) uoadl:141681

Unit:

Μουσείο Ορυκτολογίας και Πετρολογίας

Call number:

Halide Minerals
D64 (25)

Place of origin:

Stassfurt, Germany

Description:

Marine evaporites. Upper layers of saline deposits of the marine type.

77. Garnet var. Andradite

Artifact (mineral) uoadl:141682

Unit:

Μουσείο Ορυκτολογίας και Πετρολογίας

Call number:

Orthosilicates
D65 (8)

Place of origin:

Orenburg, ex. U.S.S.R.

Description:

Igneous and metamorphic rocks.In skarns from contact metamorphism of impure limestones and calcic igneous rocks. Chlorite schists and serpentinites. Alkalic igneous rocks.

78. Garnet var. Uvarovite

Artifact (mineral) uoadl:141683

Unit:

Μουσείο Ορυκτολογίας και Πετρολογίας

Call number:

Orthosilicates
D65 (5)

Place of origin:

Urals, ex. U.S.S.R.

Description:

Metamorphosed chromite deposits. Hydrothermal alteration of chromite-bearing serpentinite, metamorphosed limestones and skarns.

79. Zircon

Artifact (mineral) uoadl:141684