Quartz-after-Barite with Hematite
specimen number:
3831318
location:
Pea Ridge mine, Washington Co., Missouri, USA
description:
Sparkling red crystallized quartz across the top of this matrix. There are numerous bladed crystals of what were likely once barite to 1.2 cm in size present, these replaced by quartz. The matrix consists mostly of massive hematite. Definitely from the 1970s.
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