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Baryte

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Description
Locality: 
Megalo Livadi, Serifos Island, Milos, South Aegean, Greece
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4.4 × 1.8 × 1.6 cm
Description

Prismatic, elongated crystals of translucent, whitish/colorless baryte from an old find in Seriphos. One side of the specimen is covered with contrasting black goethite and microcrystals of another mineral, probably calcite.

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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