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Lavrion (Laurium) mining district

Crystal locality Documented siteGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Crystals and mineralsCrystals and minerals

Also reported: malachite, smithsonite, adamite, cerussite, plus dozens of type species.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Skarn/oxidation zone

One of the world's richest secondary mineral localities; ~600 species.

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