Rosasite Mineral

Hey dear Hive friends, first of all I would like to wish you all a pleasant day and hope you were able to have one or the other positive experience! In this post, I would like to take a closer look at a mineral and hope you can expand your knowledge.

The mineral that can be seen here bears the name rosasite and it belongs to the mineral class of carbonates and nitrates. How often this mineral was also named after the place of discovery and was first discovered at the beginning of the 20th century by the Italian mineralogist Domenico Lovisato (1842 - 1916) who had found the mineral on the island of Sardinia in Rosas mine. This mine was still active until 1980 and was one of the most important mines and the most important minerals mined here included zinc and copper and the whole region was generally of great importance for mining in ancient times. The color of rosasite is usually green or blue and can be traced back to the content of copper and the shine of the surface is usually glassy or silky and it is formed as a secondary mineral in the oxidation zone of copper or zinc-containing deposits. Sometimes it is used together with other copper-containing minerals as an ore but on the whole, it is not of great interest due to the rarity and otherwise there are no other areas of application. It is particularly interesting for collectors and the most important places of discovery include Spain, Mexico, Switzerland, USA, Slovakia or Greece in addition to Italy and this specimen probably also originally comes from Greece from Lavrio.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you could learn something new about minerals! I captured these pictures with my Camera Sony Alpha 6000 plus 55-210 mm lens!