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Baryte With Fluorite

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Baryte With Fluorite

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Description
Locality: 
Justice Level, Langthwaite, Arkengarthdale, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.5 × 2.5 × 2 cm
Description

This is one of those specimens where it is hard to decide which side is the nicer. On one are reflective, sharp, well formed baryte crystals and on the other yellow transparent fluorite crystals with attractive sulphide highlights. The fluorite crystals are up to 1.5 cm on an edge. A lovely specimen whatever way you look at it.

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
Peter Crozier Minerals