Adami Mine No. 2, Plaka Mines, Plaka, Lavrion mining district, Lavreotiki, East Attica, Attica, Greece
Dark brown beudantite on gossan matrix FOV: 10 mm
© F.Schreiber
Black lustrous pseudo-cubic beudantite crystals on limonite. Self-collected in October 2020, in a no-lockdown period. The beudantite was associated (but not directly) with blocky scorodite crystals up to 5 mm in size - https://www.mindat.org/photo-1127388.html
© Uwe Kolitsch
SEM micrograph (BSE mode) of a blackish pseudo-cuboctahedral, S-rich beudantite crystal. Smaller crystals on the specimen showed a dark brown-red colour. From the carminite locality in Adami 2. Gift from Branko Rieck.
SEM micrograph (SE mode) of a blackish pseudo-cuboctahedral, S-rich beudantite crystal. Smaller crystals on the specimen showed a dark brown-red colour. From the carminite locality in Adami 2. Gift from Branko Rieck.
Overview. Black lustrous pseudo-cubic beudantite crystals on limonite. Self-collected in October 2020, in a no-lockdown period. The beudantite was associated (but not directly) with blocky scorodite crystals up to 5 mm in size - https://www.mindat.org/photo-1127388.html
Close-up view of a pseudocubic face - when one zooms in, interesting surface features can be seen. The dark red, wheel-shaped mineral is probably lepidocrocite.