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Mixture of Aragonite and Cerussite from Greece

Contributed by: FMS Admin
Date: Mar 8th, 2026
Locality: Passa Limani Cove slag locality, Lavreotiki Municipal Unit, Lavreotiki, East Attica, Attica, Greece (See on Mindat)

Description:
This is not Tarnowitsite, the plumbo-aragonite variety, but rather a mixture of aragonite and cerussite. The latter causes the yellowish hue of fluorescence. Seen under white light and MW-UV

Locality: Passa Limani slag locality, Greece.

Source: Fluorescent Minerals Workgroup MKA : http://fluo.mineralogie.be/

Originally posted by Axel Emmermann on Nature's Rainbows.

Fluorescence under midwave UV light.
Fluorescence under midwave UV light.
Normal light.
Normal light.

Summary of luminescence responses:

Aragonite (Mindat) (RRUFF)

  • Fluorescence under Midwave (305nm LED) UV light: Yellow
Cerussite (Mindat) (RRUFF)
  • Fluorescence under Midwave (305nm LED) UV light: Yellow

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