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Barytocalcite & Witherite

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Barytocalcite & Witherite

Henry Delinde collection
Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Pigeon Roost Mine, Glenwood, Montgomery County, Arkansas, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.9 × 3.2 × 2.4 cm
Description

You are bidding on a large sample with thousands of barytocalcite prisms on quartz matrix with a few large, transparent hexagonal witherite crystals. Rare Arkansas sample from this small baryte mine. From the Henry Delinde collection. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Barytocalcite

Formula: 
BaCa(CO3)2
Strunz: 
5.AB.45
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
4.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Blagill Mine, Nent Valley, Alston Moor District, North Pennines, North and Western Region (Cumberland), Cumbria, England, UK

Witherite

Formula: 
BaCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.15
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
3.0 - 3.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Brownley Hill Mine (Bloomsberry Horse Level), Nenthead, Alston Moor District, North Pennines, North and Western Region (Cumberland), Cumbria, England, UK

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