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Calcite & Baryte

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Calcite & Baryte

ex Hermann Höger collection
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Description
Locality: 
Monteponi Mine, Iglesias, Carbonia-Iglesias Province, Sardinia, Italy
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7.4 × 5.4 × 4.5 cm
Largest Crystal: 
3.70cm
Description

A many nice scalenohedral calcite crystals on partly massif barite. The barite shows only on the backside very small pinkish crystal bases. The specimen comes from the Höger collection. He was a famous sauerland collector, favored oege quarry, hohenlimburg.

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