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Baryte Fluorite & Chalcopyrite

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Baryte Fluorite & Chalcopyrite

ex private collection, included label
Classic Locality

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Description
Locality: 
Sauberg Mine, Ehrenfriedersdorf, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
13.2 × 10.8 × 4 cm
Weight: 
617.00gr
Description

A nice specimen with an unusual barite, what we in 27 years didn't seen. The barite built up in thin blades the white big groups. The matrix ist overgrown with lighting blue fluorite crystals with brass colored chalcopyrite. The special here, the matrix, this is cemented with signature pf. The specimen was found 1960, the preowner wrote the specimen was fissured, therefore it was cemented.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Baryte

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

Fluorite

Formula: 
CaF2
Strunz: 
3.AB.25
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
4.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Jáchymov (St Joachimsthal), Jáchymov District (St Joachimsthal), Krušné Hory Mts (Erzgebirge), Karlovy Vary Region, Bohemia (Böhmen; Boehmen), Czech Republic

Chalcopyrite

Formula: 
CuFeS2
Strunz: 
2.CB.10a
Crystal System: 
Tetragonal
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0