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Baryte With Calcite

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Baryte With Calcite

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Description
Locality: 
Florence Mine, Haile, Cumbria, United Kingdom
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.5 × 4.5 × 2 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.50cm
Description

Plates of baryte to two sides with a cavity containing calcite crystals to the centre.

Recovered during mining operations in the early 1970's by A B Banks of Egremont.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Baryte

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

Calcite

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