Lavrion District Mines, Lavreotiki, East Attica, Attica, Greecei

Regional Level Types
Lavrion District Mines	Group of Mining Districts (Abandoned)
Lavreotiki	Municipality
East Attica	Regional Unit
Attica	Administrative Region
Greece	Country

This general "header" covers the minerals found in the many mines of the Lavrion District of Attiki, Greece. (There is a separate list for the ancient slag localities.)

Note: For information on mineralogy and geology, see Lavreotiki.

The name Lavrion is also often spelled "Laurium" (the ancient Latin spelling) and "Laurion" (which is the Anglicized version); "Lavrion" is the closest transliteration from the Greek alphabet and should be preferred. (Attikí is also often spelled either "Attika" or "Attica"; but - again - "Attikí" is the closest transliteration from the Greek alphabet.)

The various mines - and there are quite a few of them - are located within or near the town of Lavrion; the villages of Plaka and Agios Konstantinos (St. Constantine - previously named Kamareza, which is also often spelled "Kamariza," "Kameresa" and even "Camariza"); and in the "Areas" known as Elafos, Thorikos, Sounion, Soureza, Vromopoussi, etc... (There are very few actual towns or villages in the District - just the three named above - so the geography is described in many cases by "Areas" - such as the Sounion Area, which is an area south of Lavrion which is famous for its ancient Greek temple.) Some of the important mines are Adami No. 2, Christiana, Jean Baptiste, Hilarion, Km-3 ("Km-3" refers to the Lavrion-Agios Konstantinos road kilometer marker near which the mine is located), Plaka mine no. 80, Serpieri, Sounion mine no. 6 ("Exi" mine), and Sounion mine no. 19. There are many others. The numbers are part of a district-wide (not town- or area-specific) numbering system devised by mining geologists and collectors to distinguish the many mines whose names have been lost in the mists of time.

NOTES:

- Several mines in the district are the type locality for species on this list. These are noted in the specific mine list for each species. The district is NOT the type locality for any of them, though - specific mines are.

- There are NO "Km-2" and "Km-4" mines, which some materials have been labeled as coming from. The correct locality for specimens labeled this way is usually the "Km-3" mine. The name "Adayir" seems to be a fictitious name for the Adami mine no. 2.

A small mineral museum with mainly superb and large specimens from the Lavrion district can be visited in Lavrion.
A further mineral and mining museum was opened in 2006 in Agios Konstantinos (Kamariza), which incorporates the Serpieri shaft as the outdoor part of the museum.