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Baryte

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Baryte

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Description
Locality: 
Limenaria, Thasos Island, East Macedonia and Thrace, Greece
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.5 × 4.5 × 2.8 cm
Description

A very fine old time Greek classic from a now worked out locality. Two big barite crystals grown on small matrix which is covered with small barite crystals. As you can see on the photos there is also some brown limonite on the crystals. No significant damage to report - the bottom was extracted from the rock!

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Baryte

Formula: 
BaSO4
Strunz: 
7.AD.35
Hardness: 
3.0 - 3.5
Streak: 
White