Barite

  
Barite with calcite
Origin: Minerva mine #1, Cave in Rock district, Hardin Co., Illinois, U.S.A.
Sample size: 12.5 x 10 x 5 cm
 
  
Barite on dolomite
Origin: Frizington, Cumbria, England
Sample size: 22 x 13 x 6 cm
 
  
An excellent sliced example of brown "oakstone" barite. This type of barite was mined for ornamental purposes during the 19th century.
Origin: Arbor Low, near Youlgreave, Derbyshire, England
Sample size: 12 x 8.5 x 1.7 cm
 
  
Barite with calcite, dolomite, galena and pyrargyrite
Origin: Pribram, Bohemia, Czech Republic
Sample size: 10 x 7 x 4.5 cm
 
  
Barite on quartz pseudomorph after fluorite
Origin: Pohla mine, Crottendorf, Saxony, Germany
Sample size: 15 x 18 x 7.5 cm
 
  
Barite on dolomite
Origin: Frizington, Cumbria, England
Sample size: 6 x 6 x 3 cm
 
  
Orange translucent thin bladed tabular wulfenite crystals to 7 mm on edge nicely scattered about a crystallized barite matrix with brilliant micro orange balls of mimetite.
Origin: Rowley mine, near Theba, Maricopa Co., Arizona, U.S.A.
Ex Tom Dwyer Collection
Sample size: 6.5 x 2.5 x 4 cm
 
  
  
Barite with fluorite and sphalerite
Origin: Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Central Tennessee Ba-F-Pb-Zn District, Smith Co., Tennessee, U.S.A.
Ex. Steve Neely collection
Sample size: 8.8 x 6 x 4 cm
 

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Dan Weinrich

Dealer in fine mineral specimens

 

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