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Baryte With Fluorite

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Baryte With Fluorite

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Description
Locality: 
Santa Lucia Mine, Fluminimaggiore, South Sardinia Province, Sardinia, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8 × 4.5 × 5.5 cm
Weight: 
292.00gr
Description

Parallel accretion Baryte crystal package with aesthetic stepped termination with fluorite crystals implanted on one side of the sample. Some Fluorite crystals up to 5 mm size have a green tint caused by copper salts.

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