Silvery blue Kyanite crystals specimen from Trikorfo peak In Thasos. Thasos Kyanite is the finest for the variety in Greece. A wonderful and rarely seen nowadays example from this uncommon locality from a now worked out location.
Kyanite most often occurs in various shades of blue. It is less commonly colorless, white, gray, green, yellow or orange. The colorless form is the rarest, though not the most valuable form of kyanite.
Kyanite has an alternative name also - disthene. Both of these names have a meaning relating to the properties of the mineral. “Kyanos” means blue in Greek and disthene also from Greek means that its hardness varies. It is considerably weaker along the crystal (5 on Mohs scale) and stronger across it (7 on Mohs scale).
The earliest mining on the island has been dated to around 13,000 BC, when paleolithic miners dug a shaft at the site of the modern-era Tzines iron mine.The Trikorfo area represents a unique mineralogical locality with Mn-rich minerals.
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