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Baryte & Aragonite

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Baryte & Aragonite

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Description
Locality: 
Plaka Mines, Plaka, Lavrion District, Attiki Prefecture, Greece
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Museum (18cm plus)
Size: 
28.5 × 11.5 × 4.7 cm
Description

Huge plate full of olive-green baryte crystals, associated with some aragonite close to the center of the specimen. A very large and good example of this rare type of Lavrion baryte.

ex Konstantinos Papaspyropoulos collection.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Baryte

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

Aragonite

Polymorph of: 
Formula: 
CaCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.15
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Type Locality: 
Gallo river, Molina de Aragón, Guadalajara, Castile-La Mancha, Spain

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