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Calcite & Baryte

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Calcite & Baryte

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Description
Locality: 
Becke-Oese Quarry, Menden, Iserlohn, Arnsberg, North Rhine - Westphalia, Germany
Class: 
Combination
Size Range: 
Museum (18cm plus)
Size: 
19 × 7 × 3 cm
Description

Colorless calcite crystals hosting baryte blades and minor chalcopyrite crystals and some millerite needles

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Calcite

Polymorph of: 
Formula: 
CaCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.0
Streak: 
White

Baryte

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