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Baryte & Calcite

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Baryte & Calcite

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Description
Locality: 
Beerwalde, Ronneburg Uranium Deposit, Gera, Thuringia, Germany
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.8 × 3.6 × 2.3 cm
Description

A very fine specimen from a nowadays hard to find locality with golden brown barite crystals up to 4 mm, small colourless calcite crystals and some small pyrite crystals on a dolomite matrix. Collected in august 1987 at the 360 meter level of the Beerwalde Uranium Mine in Ronneburg.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Baryte

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

Calcite

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