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Baryte

New Discovery

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Description
Locality: 
Langeac, Haute-Loire, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8.5 × 5.4 × 4.9 cm
Description

The specimen is from an old Fluorite mine, which closed in 1977. In 2017 the French field collector Nicolas Vignat bought the mine and started with specimen-mining. This particular specimen is from a recent small discovery - and from all he showed me, this is the most attractive one with a complete, free-standing main-crystal. The crystals faces consist of uncountable tiny and razor sharp terminated

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What's on the rock

Baryte

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