Size 6 x 8 x 1.5 cm. Tabular aggregated crystals of barite forming parallel
groups. Coloured by Fe oxides shades of red.
Area 4 cm
Origin: Plaka Mines, Plaka, Lavrion District, Attikí (Attica; Attika)
Prefecture, Greece
Owner: Steve Rust
Main crystal 3mm long on
quartz
Origin: Dry Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria, England, UK
Owner: Steve Rust
Barite crystals to 0.7 mm coated by
greenockite, with botryoidal
smithsonite
Origin: Milltown Quarry, Ashover, Derbyshire, England, UK
Owner: Steve Rust
Cavity in a large barite specimen, cavity size 6 cm x 5 cm
Area 10 x 9 cm
Origin: Slayley Quarry, Bonsall Moor, Derbyshire, England, UK
Owner: Steve Rust
1 mm tabular crystal on
pyrite
Origin: Hampstead Farm Quarry, Chipping Sodbury district, Gloucestershire,
England, UK
Owner: Steve Rust
Barite ball 1.5 cm
Origin: Warden Point, Isle of Sheppey, Kent, England, UK
Owner: Steve Rust
0.5 mm crystal group on chalk
Origin: Sidestrand (beach), Cromer, Norfolk, England, UK
Owner: Steve Rust
Bladed barite crystals to 5 mm with
calcite
Origin: Ton Mawr Quarry, Taff's Well, Cardiff (Mid Glamorgan; Glamorgan),
Wales, UK
Owner: Steve Rust
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