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Baryte

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Baryte

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Description
Locality: 
Clara Mine, Oberwolfach, Freiburg Region, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
12.4 × 7.5 × 4.1 cm
Description

A typical specimen of "Meissel-Spat" from this famous classic locality. The crystal show some red-brown faces, and also some very light faces with just a touc of blue color. This helps to give more contrast to all these sharp terminated and partly glossy crystals.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Baryte

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