Barite with Fluorite, Sphalerite, Quartz
specimen number:
1451036
location:
Elmwood mine, Smith Co., Tennessee, USA
description:
An attractive combination specimen with a large crystallized grouping of barite 8.0 cm in diameter set nicely up on a quartz crystal matrix with purple crystals of fluorite to 1.8 cm on edge. Minor sphalerite present as well. Some cleaving is present to the calcite crystals as seen, this still very nice.
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