Barite

     
Barite with pyrargyrite (right)
 
  
Origin: Hecla Rosebud mine, Pershing Co., Nevada, USA
Sample size: top 5 x 5 x 4 cm, bottom, 2.5 x 2 x 2 cm
 
  
Origin: Ashoto, Crook Co., Wyoming, USA
Sample size: 5 x 5 x 4 cm, crystals 2 cm
 
Origin: Marquette, Kentucky, USA
Sample size: about 1.5 cm
 
     
Origin: Hecla Rosebud mine, Pershing Co., Nevada, U.S.A.
Sample size: 8 x 5 x 5 cm, crystals to 8 mm
 
Origin: Hecla Rosebud mine, Pershing Co., Nevada, U.S.A.
Sample size: 5 x 4 x 4 cm
 
  
Barit crystals and pyrrhotite blades with an overgrowth of shiny pyrargyrite crystals to 1 mm
Origin: Hecla Rosebud mine, Pershing Co., Nevada, U.S.A.
Sample size: 4 x 4 x 2 cm, crystals to 8 mm
 
     
Origin: Hecla Rosebud mine, Pershing Co., Nevada, U.S.A.
Sample size: 5 x 4 x 3 cm, crystals to 1.5 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Tom Loomis

Dakota Matrix Minerals

 

 Barite under SW-UV light
Origin: Villers-en-Fagne, Belgium
Owner: Axel Emmermann
 
Barite under LW-UV light, The fluorescence is possibly caused by inclusions of organic material or perhaps some fluorescing clay.
Origin: La Cruz mine, Linares, Spain
Owner: Axel Emmermann

Photo courtesy of: 

Axel Emmermann

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Origin: West Cumberland Iron Mine, Frizington, Cumberland, England
Sample size: 10 x 8 x 3 cm
 
  
Barite (fluorescent) with calcite
Origin: Franklin, Sussex County, New Jersey
Sample size: 7 x 6 x 5 cm
 
  
Barite on fluorite
Origin: Annabel Lee Mine, Hardin County, Illinois
Sample size: 11 x 9 x 7 cm
 
  
Origin: Tsumeb, Namibia
Sample size: 4.5 x 4 x 3 cm
 
  
 
  
Barite on stibnite
Origin: Thames, Coromandel Peninsula, North Island, New Zealand
Ex. Marilyn Dodge collection
Sample size: 2 x .8 x .5 cm (top), 2.5 x 0.7 x 0.3 cm (bottom)
 
  
Barite with gageite and rhodochrosite
Origin: N’Chwaning Mine, Kalahari Manganese Field, South Africa
Ex. Marilyn Dodge collection
Sample size: 3.8 x 2.3 x 2.2 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone

 

  
Origin: Minerva mine #1, Hardin Co., Illinois, U.S.A.
Sample size: 10.5 x 11.5 x 2.5 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Dan Weinrich

Dealer in fine mineral specimens

 

  
This specimen has scattered and clustered crystals of zoned barite and numerous bladed crystals of inesite. There are also a number of blocky calcite crystals. All of these are set on dark brown lizardite.
Origin: N'Chwaning II Mine, Kuruman, Cape Province, South Africa
Ex. John Schneider collection
Sample size: 4.8 x 3.5 x 2.2 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

John Veevaert, Trinity Mineral Co

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