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.
Summary of luminescence responses:
Aragonite (Mindat) (RRUFF)
- Fluorescence under Midwave (305nm LED) UV light: Yellow
- Fluorescence under Midwave (305nm LED) UV light: Yellow