Michalis Fitros' Photo Gallery

FHF-QLPMixite BiCu₆(AsO₄)₃(OH)₆·3H₂O , Adamite Zn₂(AsO₄)(OH) , Malachite Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂ , Quartz SiO₂

Hilarion Mine, Kamariza Mines, Agios Konstantinos, Lavrion Mining District, Lavreotiki, East Attica, Attica, Greece

Dimensions: 7.6 mm x 34 mm x 27 mm
Field of View: 25 mm
Weight: 60 g

Acicular Mixite with Malachite and Cu-Adamite on Quartz.
Hilarion, Kamariza mines, Lavrion, Greece

Kindly thanks George Kafantaris, photographer and field researcher.

View of the intrusion of a S-type granitoid sill

Tombolo Granodiorite Outcrop, Tombolo, Mikrolimano, Lavrion Mining District, Lavreotiki, East Attica, Attica, Greece

View of the intrusion of a S-type granitoid sill with the characteristic occurrence of hydrothermal alteration zones and related porphyry-type mineralization. These granitoids are associated with the detachment fault (WCDS) (Skarpelis, 2007; Liati et al., 2009).

M9E-FG9Coronadite Pb(Mn⁴⁺₆Mn³⁺₂)O₁₆ , Gypsum CaSO₄·2H₂O , Calcite CaCO₃

Paliokamariza Mine No. 18, Paliokamariza Mines, Plaka, Lavrion Mining District, Lavreotiki, East Attica, Attica, Greece

Dimensions: 0.1 mm x 0.1 mm x 1 mm
Field of View: 0.7 mm

SEM micrograph (polished section) showing coronadite aggregate (medium-grey to light grey) embedded in a matrix of gypsum and marble. The coronadite aggregates are significantly zoned.

JT9-KXAUranospinite Ca(UO₂)₂(AsO₄)₂·10H₂O , Gypsum CaSO₄·2H₂O

Paliokamariza Mine No. 18, Paliokamariza Mines, Plaka, Lavrion Mining District, Lavreotiki, East Attica, Attica, Greece

Dimensions: 0.1 mm x 0.1 mm x 1 mm
Field of View: 300 μm

Crude crystals of uranospinite on gypsum matrix. The SEM-EDS, XRD and RAMAN analysis had been carried out at I.G.M.E. This specimen was discovered by Syrigos Dimitrios.

DV8-XRMChadwickite (UO₂)[HAsO₃] , Gypsum CaSO₄·2H₂O

Paliokamariza Mine No. 18, Paliokamariza Mines, Plaka, Lavrion Mining District, Lavreotiki, East Attica, Attica, Greece

Dimensions: 0.1 mm x 1 mm x 1 mm
Field of View: 140 μm

Earthy and scaly crusts in which single grains Chadwickite on gypsum matrix. The SEM-EDS, XRD and RAMAN analysis had been carried out at I.G.M.E. This specimen was discovered by Syrigos Dimitrios.

59U-Y4WBoltwoodite (K,Na)(UO₂)(SiO₃OH)·1.5H₂O , Gypsum CaSO₄·2H₂O

Paliokamariza Mine No. 18, Paliokamariza Mines, Plaka, Lavrion Mining District, Lavreotiki, East Attica, Attica, Greece

Dimensions: 2.5 mm x 1 mm x 0.7 mm
Field of View: 1 mm
Largest Crystal Size: 0.5 mm

Aggregate of acicular boltwoodite crystals on/in gypsum matrix.The SEM-EDS, XRD and RAMAN analysis had been carried out at I.G.M.E. This specimen was discovered by Syrigos Dimitrios.

524-4GASklodowskite Mg(UO₂)₂(SiO₃OH)₂·6H₂O , Gypsum CaSO₄·2H₂O

Paliokamariza Mine No. 18, Paliokamariza Mines, Plaka, Lavrion Mining District, Lavreotiki, East Attica, Attica, Greece

Dimensions: 1 mm x 1 mm x 3 mm
Field of View: 1 mm
Largest Crystal Size: 2.3 mm
Weight: 0.01 g

SEM micrograph showing acicular Sklodowskite crystals on gypsum matrix.
The SEM-EDS analysis had been carried out at University of Patras.
This specimen was discovered by Syrigos Dimitrios.

MD5-MRWCorundum (Var: Sapphire) Al₂O₃ , Magnetite Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄ , Margarite CaAl₂(Al₂Si₂O₁₀)(OH)₂

Naxos Island, Naxos, South Aegean, Greece

Dimensions: 6 cm x 3 cm x 2.5 cm
Field of View: 5.2 cm
Largest Crystal Size: 1.4 cm
Weight: 320 g

Big blue Corundum var. Sapphire crystals on Emery matrix

FE7-MCWGuérinite Ca₆(HAsO₄)₃(AsO₄)₂·10.5H₂O , Calcite CaCO₃ , Galena PbS , Fluorite CaF₂ , Picropharmacolite Ca₄Mg(AsO₄)₂(HAsO₄)₂·11H₂O , Pharmacolite Ca(HAsO₄)·2H₂O , Arsenic As , Arsenopyrite FeAsS

Plaka Mine No. 80, Plaka Mines, Plaka, Lavrion mining district, Lavreotiki, East Attica, Attica, Greece

Dimensions: 2.5 cm x 3 cm x 2.2 cm
Field of View: 4 cm
Largest Crystal Size: 1.1 mm
Weight: 42 g

In center of specimen is the largest crystal of Guerinite(1,1cm) up to matrix with Calcite, Picropharmacolite, Pharmacolite,Fluorite and Gypsum. Under to this white matrix there is a grey matrix with Galena, Sphalerite, Native Arsenic and Pitticite
Filon 80 is an hydrothermal polymetallic vein mineralization with sulphides and arsenides in the Plaka's area. The paragenesis is:
Galena+Sphalerite+Sulfates of silver and arsenic++Pyrite+Chalcopyrite+Native Arsenic+Antimonite+Fluorite+Pittikite+Calcite+ Dolomite+Gypsum+Sulfur+Orpiment+ Picropharmacolite+Pharmacolite+Arsenolite+Quartz+Anglesite+Cerussite
The SEM-EDS ans XRD analysis had been carried out at the Department of Geology, University of Patras, Faculty of Sciences by Koutsopoulou Eleni and Michael Fitros.

U94-WJDBismuth Bi , Bismutite (BiO)₂CO₃ , Bismuthinite Bi₂S₃ , Bismite Bi₂O₃ , Beyerite Ca(BiO)₂(CO₃)₂

Serifos Island, Milos, South Aegean, Greece

Dimensions: 4.5 cm x 2.4 cm x 1.5 cm
Field of View: 6 cm
Weight: 223 g

In center of specimen is the metallic mass of bismuth and perimetrically there is the oxidized zone with bismite, bismutite , bismuthinite, bismoclite and beyerite. Macroscopically we can see only bismutite with light-green color mass. The specimen analysed with SEM-EDS and XRD by Professor Vasilios Tsikouras with his student Michalis Fitros at the Department of Geology of Patra University. Specimen size 4,5x2,4x1,5 cm. The discovery of the samples was done by minerals collector Demosthenes Katsikis.
Fitros Michalis, Tombros F. Stylianos, Williams-Jones E. Anthony , Tsikouras Basilios, Koutsopoulou Eleni, and Hatzipanagiotou Konstantin, «Physicochemical controls on bismuth mineralization: An example from Moutoulas, Serifos Island, Cyclades, Greece», American Mineralogist, Volume 102, pages 1622–1631, 2017