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Witherite

Ex-David J. Eicher Collection; ex-John H. Eicher Collection

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Description
Locality: 
Fallowfield Mine, Acomb, Northumberland, United Kingdom
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2 × 1.8 × 1.3 cm
Description

Glass jar measuring 5.4 cm across containing more than a dozen crystallized thumbnail specimens of the barium carbonate witherite, from an old collection. Dimensions given are for the largest specimen. Acquired by John H. Eicher in the 1940s.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

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
David J. Eicher

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