Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Witherite

Views:
Watches:
WND594249

Witherite

Classic Locality

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Hexham, Northumberland, United Kingdom
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
10 × 8.5 × 5.2 cm
Description

A very good specimen features several white crystals of witherite on galena-bearing matrix. The witherite is well developed, largely sharp edgedand good terminated.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Witherite

Formula: 
BaCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.15
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
3.0 - 3.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Brownley Hill Mine (Bloomsberry Horse Level), Nenthead, Alston Moor District, North Pennines, North and Western Region (Cumberland), Cumbria, England, UK
Wendel Minerals

Seller Information

Payment options: offline, paypal_wpp, paypal_wps

Seller's terms and conditions

Our Terms & Conditions can be found at:​ https://www.wendel-minerals.com/en/shop/agb.php