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Baryte & Fluorite

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Baryte & Fluorite

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Description
Locality: 
Serifos Island, Milos, South Aegean, Greece
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7.5 × 6 × 2.5 cm
Description

Platy sharp barite crystals in cavity with fluorite. Iron oxides "dusting" gives cavity minerals a variety of colors from light brick brown (on barite) to dark brown and black (on fluorite).The transparent crystals attached to barite are probably calcite but could be barite also.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Baryte

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

Fluorite

Formula: 
CaF2
Strunz: 
3.AB.25
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
4.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Jáchymov (St Joachimsthal), Jáchymov District (St Joachimsthal), Krušné Hory Mts (Erzgebirge), Karlovy Vary Region, Bohemia (Böhmen; Boehmen), Czech Republic

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