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Baryte

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Description
Locality: 
Holzen, Arnsberg, North Rhine - Westphalia, Germany
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8.9 × 7 × 3.9 cm
Largest Crystal: 
4.00cm
Description

Old specimen with big tabular, brownish crystals. The barite comes outside of the quarry "calcite" from a small barite outcrop between the quarry and the village Holzen. Specimen isn't damaged.

Ex Alfred Sülberg Collection, Iserlohn.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Baryte

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