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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: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
9.3 × 9 × 6 cm
Description

A very fine old time Greek classic from a now worked out locality. A group of barite crystals grown in a semi-spherical shape. The crystals are shiny to high glossy and reach an edge length of up to 3.3 cm. 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! Should high gerangt on the basis of rarity!

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Baryte

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