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Baryte

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Description
Locality: 
Frizington Mine, Frizington, Cumbria, United Kingdom
Class: 
Single Crystal
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4 × 1.2 × 1 cm
Description

A nice transparent/translucent baryte single crystal from a classic British locality.  The specimen come with an old lable from the Freiberg Mining Academy Mineral Dealership. The Academy had it's 250th anniversary last year for which Germany issued mineral stamps. The Mineral dealership started two years later in 1767.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Baryte

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