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Calcite & Baryte

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Description
Locality: 
Highpoint, Maribyrnong, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.6 × 4.3 × 3.5 cm
Description

Spheres of cream to amber coloured ferroan calcite covered with druzies of clear calcite scalahedral crystals with a cluster of colourless barite crystals.

Collected by the seller in the mid 1970's prior to the Highpoint Shopping Centre being built on the quarry site

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Calcite

Polymorph of: 
Formula: 
CaCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.0
Streak: 
White

Baryte

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