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Baryte & Fluorite

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Baryte & Fluorite

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Description
Locality: 
Anton Mine, Heubach Valley, Wittichen, Schenkenzell, Freiburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8.1 × 6.3 × 3.3 cm
Description

Famous stuff from Anton mine. Tabular barite crystals form a fine tridimensional specimen with some light lavender intergrown fluorite crystals. The locality is non productive in our days, it closed in 1974, so this is really old material and hard to obatin.

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