Baryte, Greece

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Baryte, Greece
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Here will go a good picture of a Baryte from Greece and general remarks about the Baryte from this country. Here are some url's to some of the better Greek Baryte specimens here on Mindat that can be considered for inclusion in the article. These, in most cases are just for temporary use until we can get images of the much better specimens that are almost certainly out there. We should also consider that there are probably localities out there with fine specimens that are not even mentioned on Mindat. Also in some instances there are sometimes pictures on Mindat, of specimens from a locality, but they were so ratty that I did not include them here, but there may also be really good specimens from there that we should talk about in this article.


Baryte
Greece
Kalamavros, Milos Island (Melos), Cyclade Islands (Cyclades; Kikladhes; Nomos Kikladhon), Kykládes Prefecture, Aegean Islands (Aiyaíon) Department, Greece
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Baryte
Greece
Serifos Island (Seriphos), Cyclade Islands (Cyclades; Kikladhes; Nomos Kikladhon), Kykládes Prefecture, Aegean Islands (Aiyaíon) Department, Greece
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Baryte
Greece
Megalo Livadi, Serifos Island (Seriphos), Cyclade Islands (Cyclades; Kikladhes; Nomos Kikladhon), Kykládes Prefecture, Aegean Islands (Aiyaíon)
Department, Greece
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Baryte
Greece
Plaka Mines, Plaka, Lavrion District Mines, Lavrion (Laurion; Laurium) District, Attikí (Attica; Attika) Prefecture, Greece
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Here are some notes I made about Baryte from Greese that may be useful to whoever writes this article.


Greece
Attica Peninsula, Laurium. “Predominant gangue of the secondary ore zones of the Kamaréza and Plaka mines, occurring as white nodules, lamellar aggregates to 10 cm long and tabular crystals associated with P2 and K2 suites.”1 The mines are on the coast of the Aegean Sea about 25 miles south east of Athens. The Greeks began lead and silver mining there about 600 BC. And the workings were abandoned about 100 AD. A French mining company began mining zinc in the area in the middle of the 19th century. Thousands of mine shafts have been sunk in the region. The Plaka and Kamaréza mines are the names of the tow major mines worked by the French. An article on the mines and minerals but short on pictures of minerals from the locality is in the Mineralogical Record.2
1. Mineralogical Record, Vol. 7, 1976, p.123. 2. Mineralogical Record, Vol. 7, 1976, p.114-125.

Northern Greece. “…rectangulary shaped “window” crystals of red hematite edged clear barite up to 2 cm on matrix…”1
1. Mineralogical Record, Vol. 18, 1978, p.134.
You should really see if you can run down this locality.

Seriphos, Almiros, Koutalas and Aghia Trias. “Tabular, colorless and transparent crystals of barite showing a slightly curved habit have been found near the villages of Almiros, Koutalas and Aghia Trias.”1
1. Mineralogical Record, Gilbert Gauthier & Nicholaos Albandakis, Vol. 22, 1991, p.304.
Ask Gilbert Gauthier about the barites from this locality and the Andradites. Nicholaos Albandakis’s address is given as 112 Iron Constandopoulou, 16346 Athens, Greece.



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Crystals not pistols.



Edited 4 time(s). Last edit at 12/28/2012 08:58PM by Rock Currier.