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Goethite On Baryte

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Goethite On Baryte

Collected by seller in 1998

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Description
Locality: 
Oraparinna Mine, Oraparinna Homestead, Bunkers Range, Flinders Ranges, South Australia, Australia
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.9 × 2.7 × 1.5 cm
Description

A lovely miniature featuring golden brown balls of acicular goethite crystals with baryte crystals on matrix. Superb under the microscope or loupe. This specimen came from Linke's Lode,  a small baryte quarry that has produced some exceptional baryte crystals from a vughy zone in the upper benches. Collecting has noet been permitted for some time now.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Goethite

Formula: 
α-Fe3+O(OH)
Strunz: 
4.00.
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
5.0 - 5.5
Type Locality: 
Hollertszug Mine (Hollerter Zug Mine), Dermbach, Herdorf, Siegerland, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Baryte

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