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Baryte

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Description
Locality: 
Shangulowé Mine, Kambove, Lualaba, DR Congo
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.5 × 4.7 × 4.6 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.00cm
Description

Aggregate of yellow baryte crystals on matrix, a quite rare colour from shangulowé barytes. Found before 1971 by Eudore Toussaint, a Belgian Chemical Engineer in the D.R.Congo from 1948 to 1971.

Specimen #7, it comes with the original old wood socle from the collection.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Baryte

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

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