Agardite

Divergent groups of acicular agardite to 1mm on whiteish gibbsite
Origin: Hilarion Mine (Hilarion adit; Kamareza Mine 48; "Akrobates" Mine), Kamareza Mines (Christiana; Hilarion; Jean Baptiste; Serpieri), Agios Konstantinos [St Constantine] (Kamareza; Kamariza), Lavrion District, Attikí (Attica; Attika) Prefecture, Greece
Owner: Steve Rust
 
Acicular crystal sprays of agardite-(Ce)to 1mm on goethite
Origin: Kamareza Mines (Christiana; Hilarion; Jean Baptiste; Serpieri), Agios Konstantinos [St Constantine] (Kamareza; Kamariza), Lavrion District, Attikí (Attica; Attika) Prefecture, Greece
Owner: Steve Rust
 
Acicular divergent crystal groups to 2mm,associated with yellow brown jarosite. XRD confirmed. Analysis has shown Cu,As,La,Nd,Ca,Ce but it could not be determind wether it was La or Nd dominant. So it has been placed under the agardite-La form, as agardite-Nd has not been confirmed from Lavrion.
1mm area of agardite-La, with prismatic malachite crystals in a quartz caviety
8mm area of divergent acicular crystals groups on quartz
Origin: Sounion Mine #06 ("Exi" Mine), Agia Varvara Mines (St Barbara Mines) , Sounion Area, Lavrion District, Attikí (Attica; Attika) Prefecture, Greece
Owner: Steve Rust
 
Greenish-blue to white finely acicular crystal groups of agardite-(Y) to 0.5mm on powdery goethite, and quartz veinstone
Origin: Gwaith Yr Afon mine (West Cwmsymlog. Taliesan), Goginan, Trefeirig, Ceredigion (Dyfed; Cardiganshire), Wales, UK
Owner: Steve Rust

Photo courtesy of: 

Steve Rust

 

  
Chlorotile (agardite-(Y)) with malachite
Origin: Käfersteige Mine, Pforzheim, Black Forest, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Sample size: 7 x 3.5 x 3.5 cm (top), 4 x 3.5 x 2.5 cm (bottom)
 
Ex. Feinglos specimen
  
 
  
Agardite in calcite
Origin: Clara mine, Wolfach, Schwarzwald, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Sample size: 7 x 4 x 2 cm (top), 5.5 x 5 x 3 cm (2nd row), 7 x 3 x 4 cm
 
  
Origin: Big 3 mine, Montezuma Range, Esmeralda Co., Nevada, United States
Sample size: 5 x 5 x 4 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Tom Loomis

Dakota Matrix Minerals

 

Back to Page 1     Page 3

Back to Alphabetical list Physical, chemical and crystallographic description Optical properties/Thin sections SEM images TEM images vibrational spectra description IR spectra Raman spectra N-IR spectra F-IR spectra IES spectra