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LocalitiesLavrion Mining District, Lavreotiki, East Attica, Attica, Greece

5th Apr 2014 19:49 UTCUwe Kolitsch Manager

This thread is started to provide the international Lavrion collectors with information about new publications and new interesting finds from the Lavrion mines.

So here goes:


Kolitsch, U., Rieck, B., Brandstätter, F., Schreiber, F., Fabritz, K. H., Blaß, G. & Gröbner, J. (2014): Neufunde aus dem altem Bergbau und den Schlacken von Lavrion (I). Mineralien-Welt 25 (1), 60-75 (in German).


Part 1 of a two-part paper.

The following new finds from the old mines are described (including three new unnamed minerals):

Baileychlor, barahonaite-(Al), bobkingite, brandtite, the unnamed Fe2+-analogue of brandtite, the unnamed Fe2+-analogue of parabrandtite, brucite, claudetite, cornubite, dietrichite, ferrilotharmeyerite, goldichite, krausite, kyrgyzstanite, lahnsteinite, lansfordite, lotharmeyerite, manjiroite, metasideronatrite, nakauriite, nickellotharmeyerite, osakaite, sideronatrite, the unnamed mineral Zn4(SO4)(OH)6•4H2O, paralaurionite, richelsdorfite, slavkovite, a Na-Ca-arsenate, tenorite, vladimirite, the unnamed minera Ca5(AsO4)2(HAsO4)2•5H2O, the unnamed zinc-sulphate-chloride-hydrate Zn9(SO4)2(OH)12Cl2•6H2O.


The article also provides new info and analytical data on:

- Hetaerolite, hydrohetaerolite, miargyrite, molybdänite, pyromorphite, todorokite.

Confirmed and probable misidentifications reported in the literature are:

- Percylite, dufrénite, tooeleite, sophiite.


Sorry, no PDF (and all reprints are already given away). The paper has turned out very nice, with many photos, so this Mineralien-Welt issue and the one below are certainly worthwhile buying (this one also contains articles on new finds from Aris, Namibia).


Kolitsch, U., Rieck, B., Brandstätter, F., Schreiber, F., Fabritz, K. H., Blaß, G. & Gröbner, J. (2014): Neufunde aus dem altem Bergbau und den Schlacken von Lavrion (II). Mineralien-Welt 25 (2), 82-95 (in German).



Part 2 of the two-part paper; reports new finds from the Lavrion slags (including several phases previously unknown to science):


- „Liebenbergite slag dump“

Liebenbergite, schäferite, trevorite, mineral of the whitlockite group, nosean, albite (high albite), Na1.2V3O8, Ni3(VO4)2, barnesite, grantsite, mineral of the pascoite group.


- Pb-slags

Aurichalcite, cuspidine, gearksutite, hedenbergite, hidalgoite, hörnesite, hydrocalumite, clinoatacamite, tooeleite, valentinite, orthorhombic dimorph of barstowite, Pb5(As3+O3)Cl7, Pb2(HAsO3)Cl2, Pb9(H2O)3(As2O5)2Cl10, Pb6Cu(AsO3)2Cl7, NaPb2(CO3)2(OH), Pb-Fe-As-Cl-O-H-phase, hydrocerussite- and plumbonacrite-related phase, unnamed Zn-analogue of schulenbergite, Friedel‘s salt.


Sorry, no PDF (and all reprints are already given away).


All localites have been updated.


Various other new finds are already in the pipeline, and will be announced when they are published.

6th Mar 2015 12:50 UTCUwe Kolitsch Manager

The structure of the slag phase Pb6Cu(AsO3)2Cl7 was independently also solved by Zubkova et al. (sample from Vrissaki) and is now published:


Zubkova, N. V., Chukanov, N. V., Pekov, I. V., Van, K. V., Pushcharovsky, D. Y., Katerinopoulos, A., Voudouris, P. & Magganas, A. (2015): The crystal structure of the compound Pb6Cu+(AsO3)2Cl7 discovered in the ancient slags of Lavrion, Greece. Zeitschrift für Kristallographie - Crystalline Materials 230, 145-149.


Lead and copper(I) chloride arsenite was found in the ancient metallurgic slag from the Vrissaki area, Lavrion district, Attikí Peninsula, Greece. Its chemical composition corresponds to the idealized formula Pb6Cu+(AsO3)2Cl7. The IR spectrum shows the presence of AsO33- anions and only a trace amount of O–H bonds. The crystal structure was solved by direct methods and refined to R(F) = 0.0304 based on 1778 unique reflections with I > 2σ(I). The compound is trigonal (rhombohedral), R-3, a = 9.8691(2), c = 34.2028(13) Å, V = 2885.01(14) Å3, Z = 6. Two crystallographically non-equivalent As3+ cations occupy apexes of the AsO3 pyramids. Cu+ cation occupies an apex of the CuCl3 pyramid. The group [Cl3Cu–AsO3] is arranged along the c axis. Pb cations occupy two sites with seven- and eight-fold coordination. The crystal-chemical formula of the compound is Pb6(Cu+Cl3)(As3+O3)2Cl4.



Page updated.

5th Sep 2015 19:46 UTCUwe Kolitsch Manager

All photos of the Mineralien-Welt article now uploaded (with kind permission of editor Rainer Bode), as well as some additional photos of the same or other specimens.


See http://www.mindat.org/gallery-4211.html

and

http://www.mindat.org/gallery-21446.html



More news on the ore mineralogy soon.

15th Sep 2015 11:26 UTCUwe Kolitsch Manager

New finds in ore samples:


Kolitsch, U., Rieck, B. and Voudouris, P. (2015): Mineralogy and genesis of the Lavrion ore deposit: new insights from the study of ore and accessory minerals. MinPet 2015, Leoben, Austria, September 10-13; abstract in Mitt. Österr. Mineral. Ges. 161, 66 (abs.).

All abstracts of this conference downloadable here:

http://www.uibk.ac.at/mineralogie/oemg/bd_161/bd_161_13-144.pdf



Mindat pages will be updated.

6th Sep 2018 16:17 UTCUwe Kolitsch Manager

The new, 45-pages article

Rieck, B., Kolitsch, U., Voudouris, P., Giester, G. and Tzeferis, P. (2018): Weitere Neufunde aus Lavrion, Griechenland. Mineralien-Welt 29 (5), 32-77 (in German).

with numerous photos and many crystal drawings is now published; I have updated all localities.

The issue is available from the Mineralien-Welt website.

6th Sep 2018 17:58 UTCClosed Account 🌟

Thanks Uwe, you were faster!

28th Oct 2018 17:23 UTCUwe Kolitsch Manager

Just saw that part II (slag minerals) of the 2014 article is on RRUFF:

http://rruff.info/uploads/MW25_82.pdf

12th Feb 2020 15:28 UTCClosed Account 🌟

Dear colleagues and Lavrion collectors,

In the past weeks I have restructured and cleaned up the Lavrion Mining District. Most of the feedback I have received until now is positive which is heartening.

All areas now have their respective boundaries, and with very few exceptions every locality has the GPS coordinates set.

There is still much work to be done: some of the boundaries may need additional clarification or may need to be moved a little, a lot of photos need to be moved or changed and finally, there need a lot of descriptions to be written or brought to the latest status.

There are however a few issues that need to be resolved that I do not want to do without community participation.

Does it make sense to add localities like "Noria Shaft No. 19", "Noria Shaft No. 20", "Noria Shaft No. 21"?

My thoughts to this are:
it is very unlikely that any given specimen comes from the actual shaft (e.g.: when the shaft was sunk), but they rather come from the mine that was served by the shaft. In the above case that would be the Noria Mine.
My suggestion in this case would be to have the Noria Mine as a locality and to note the shafts (including their GPS data) in the description section.

So, for me the answer to the above question is "NO" and I would remove any such localities that are already there.

Does it make sense to add localities like "Hilarion Mine No. 4", "Hilarion Mine No. 50"?

My thoughts to this are:
The borders between these areas within the mines are not clearly defined and more often than not heavily debated among local collectors. Basically, while often one local guide would attribute a specimen to the e.g.: Hilarion Mine No. 50 another would attribute it to a different number. The maps that would clarify the borders between the individual mine sections have long gone missing and most information you can get is local lore. The Hilarion Mine No. 50 is an especially good example of why we should refrain from using such designations as it was used by some collectors to hide the true locality of one of their finds.
My suggestion in this case again would be to note the mine sections in the description. In this case I would also suggest to leave one such mine section as a separate locality – Christiana 132 – because this one is so entrenched in the literature (some of it my own when I did not know better) that it would confuse our audience.

So, the answer to the question is be "NO – but…" and I would remove any such localities that are already there.

I want to see this post as the beginning of a discussion (or the renewed discussion from an older thread) that should lead to a generally accepted strategy for the future. I guess Jolyon should finally have the deciding voice in this.

And finally, a question: how many languages do you need to turn the locality health check green?

Cheers,

Branko


12th Feb 2020 17:29 UTCUwe Kolitsch Manager

Noria shafts: I agree - minor shafts should only be added if minerals were found in them.
note the shafts (including their GPS data) in the description section.
Yes.



Hilarion mine/adit no. 50 is mentioned in the literature
Schreiber, F., Fabritz, K. H., Kolitsch, U. & Gröbner, J. (2003): Lavrion bleibt aktuell! Wunderschöne Cuprite und andere Sekundärmineralien aus einer neuen Fundstelle in Lavrion, Griechenland. – Lapis 28 (5), 25-31; 50.
, so if it is merged with the Hilarion mine, the name should be in the field "Historical/Alternative name" and the description should give information on the no. 50 adit/mine (coordinates? eastern/southern/... area of the mine?) and why the merger was done.

Is the mine/adit no. 50 found on old maps?

12th Feb 2020 19:42 UTCKevin Conroy Manager

Let me start by saying that I know almost nothing about the mines in the Lavrion Mining District.   I have/had several specimens from there, and that's the extent of my "hands on" knowledge.   Having said this, my vote would be to keep and list all of the mines and shafts as individual sublocalities.   Here's why:

In large mining areas/districts there are often individual mines that are accessed by more than one shaft.   This is because the mining company realized that the deposit was large, so to keep costs (bringing the ore out of the mine, travel time of miners to get to working faces, fuel, etc.) lower it made sense to sink a new shaft, which is often a considerable distance away from existing adits.   During the time that the mining is taking place on the deposit between the shafts specimens can be found in what are essentially two different mines.   If properly labeled these specimens provide a snapshot in time as to what came from each side of the deposit/mine.   Of course, after mining connects the opposite sides of the deposit then this situation may no longer be true.

Branko, you currently have information about which shaft is at a GPS coordinate.   If this information isn't perpetuated then it too may go missing over time.   As you and Uwe have proposed, putting this information in the description will save it, but to make it more prominent (and easier for researchers to find) I think that individual listings would be better.

Mindat has a scientific obligation to provide as much accurate information as possible.   We can do our best to do so, but if someone mistakenly uses this information that's not our fault.   When someone attributes a specimen to a certain mine without proof then they are the ones that are possibly/probably introducing false data into the geologic world.   It's like if someone looked at a list of meteorite locations, found a random rock at one of them, and then declared that they had found a meteorite, not that anyone would EVER do this...

Lastly, there is a precedent on Mindat for listing shafts and mines (and even adits) individually.   It would take time and effort to remove all of these.   Why do this when the information is visible and easily accessable the way that it is?

15th Mar 2020 20:24 UTCRalph S Bottrill 🌟 Manager

I agree we cannot add every last adit, shaft, trench, etc but there is no need to delete them, and they really shouldn’t be merged as alternative mine names, which just causes confusion.

8th May 2020 15:16 UTCUwe Kolitsch Manager

After two years, there is already another new article on new finds from Lavrion:

Rieck, B., Kolitsch, U., Voudouris, P., Giester, G., Tzeferis, P. (2020): Lavrion, Griechenland: Weitere Neufunde aus dem berühmten Bergbaurevier. Mineralien-Welt 31 (3), 6-21 (in German).

Again with numerous photos and many crystal drawings. Branko has already updated the mining district some days ago (individual localities are not updated yet, however).

The issue (which also contains an article about new finds from Aris, Namibia) is available from the Mineralien-Welt website.


Here is the list of all new finds:

aluminoceladonite, apjohnite, baumstarkite, betpakdalite-(CaCa), bismutoferrite, bottinoite, brassite, cervantite, chvaleticeite, clinocervantite, crandallite, cronstedtite, cuproromeite, dufrenite (updated details), ferrarisite, ferroaluminoceladonite, ferrohexahydrite, fizélyite, glauberite, gorceixite, hausmannite, hedyphane (updated details), humboldtine, irhtemite, jonassonite, joséite-b, kovdorskite, ludlamite, pararealgar, phosphohedyphane, plumbopharmacosiderite, pyrophyllite, ranciéite, rauenthalite, reevesite, retgersite, šlikite, stergiouite, thenardite, vivianite

9th May 2020 17:43 UTCClosed Account 🌟

Individual localities now updated!

The list also contains hedleyite and argentotetrahedrite-(Fe)

cheers,

Branko

8th May 2020 15:47 UTCJolyon Ralph Founder

I see no harm in adding the other shafts as sub-localities. There is nothing wrong with that.

The description can be prefixed with an important notices that minerals/photos should not be added for this locality unless there is very clear evidence that it came specifically from the shaft or its immediate surroundings.

However, it's perfectly fine for site photos - if we have photos of the shaft itself for example, then they should live here.

18th Apr 2021 18:40 UTCPiet van Kalmthout Expert

I should like to propose to combine two Laurion lists of minerals.
Laurion is a district with hundreds of mines and a lot of slag locations. Underground most mines are connecting each other. In the whole district silver containing galenite was mined. From 3000 BC till 1978 AD there was a very big industrial activity. Ore furnaces were placed just close to the mines, but also along the coast. So you can say the locations of the slags (and the slagminerals) were part of the whole region. The location of the Liebenbergite dump is even in the middle of mine entrances.
So I should like to propose to have only one list for the whole district: the list so called:
https://www.mindat.org/loc-14187.html

The list https://www.mindat.org/loc-1942.html can be removed.

The list of specific slagminerals https://www.mindat.org/loc-8370.html can stay. As you know most Laurion slagminerals are described already a long time ago, and stay for that reason accepted minerals (decision IMA 1995).

With regards

Piet van Kalmthout

 

18th Apr 2021 19:17 UTCClosed Account 🌟

So, Piet, you wish to delete the page I am sponsoring. Interesting.

As you have mentioned, if you want the mixed list, use https://www.mindat.org/loc-14187.html.

But do not force the people that do not want to touch slag phases to find them amongst real minerals! The separation is there for a reason and there are no arguments for why we should lift it. If you don't like https://www.mindat.org/loc-1942.html, don't look at it.

Branko


30th Sep 2021 08:38 UTCJolyon Ralph Founder

Branko, I have replied on this subject on about the slag localities here

https://www.mindat.org/mesg-321172.html

I need your input before continuing.

8th Dec 2022 18:37 UTCUwe Kolitsch Manager

More new finds in the latest issue of Mineralien-Welt:
Rieck, B., Kolitsch, U., Voudouris, P., Giester, G., Tzeferis, P. (2022): Neubestimmungen aus dem Minenbezirk Lavrion, Griechenland. Mineralien-Welt 33 (5), 6-20 (in German). 

Apart from many species new for Lavrion (German names: Alloklas, Amarillit, Anhydrit, Autunit, Bobierrit, Boothit, Botryogen, Calderonit, Cerianit-(Ce), Cesàrolit, Cualstibit-1M, Diadochit, Dickit, Fassinait, Felsőbányait, Ferberit, Fontanit, Glaukodot, Graphit, Grimmit, Grguricit, Haiweeit, Johannsenit, Magnesioaubertit, Pyroaurit, Smamit (accompanied by Prachařit), Volkonskoit, Zeunerit), interesting new finds are described of fluorapatite, as well as superb finds of serpierite and flos ferri.

Individual localities will be updated soon.

8th Dec 2022 22:18 UTCEddy Vervloet Manager

Impressive, Uwe!

12th Feb 2023 19:37 UTCUwe Kolitsch Manager

Now - finally - all added.
 
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