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Baryte

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Baryte

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Description
Locality: 
Thasos Island, East Macedonia and Thrace, Greece
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
9.2 × 5.4 × 3.2 cm
Description

A highly lustrous, sharp terminated, snowy white crystal perched on a thin brown-red matrix. The aesthetic assemble is very tri-dimensional, the specimen is developed as floater and looks great in each angle. Hard to photograph, much better in person and really good for this more uncommon locality.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Baryte

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