Agardite-(Ce) - Clara Mine, Rankach valley, Oberwolfach, Wolfach, Black Forest, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
(#MINS9156)
Cluster of apple-green Agardite-(Ce) with dark green Cornwallite in association on baryte matrix.
Specimen weight:35 gr.
Crystal size:sub-mm
 Overall size:37mm x 28 mm x 25 mm
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Baryte - Barega Mine, Villamassargia (SU), Sardegna, Italia
(#FERR1604)
Showy druse, covered by brilliant, perfect xls of green Baryte with excellent transparence too.
From a unique historical finding dating about 50 years ago.
Classic!
Specimen weight:1556 gr.
Crystal size:4 cm
Overall size:160mm x 100 mm x 70 mm
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Baryte - La Union - Murcia - Spain
(#GM25039)
Baryte center of a geode with a whitish/pale grenish color and crystals arranged all around the piece.
Very aesthetic!
Specimen weight:1340 gr.
Crystal size:mm.28
Overall size:127mm x 75 mm x 110 mm
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Langite - Podlipa deposit - Lubietová - Banská Bystrica Co. - Banská Bystrica reg. - Slovakia
(#MINS9060)
Cluster of dark azure Langite xls set on matrix.
Specimen weight:35 gr.
Crystal size:sub-mm
Overall size:64mm x 30 mm x 18 mm
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Baryte - Mibladen mining distr. - Midelt Prov. - Drâa-Tafilalet Region - Morocco
(#GM24100)
Excellent druse completely covered by lamellar barite crystals.
The color is rather dark orange, with some black dots here and there, probably made up by goethite.
Very aesthetic !
Specimen weight:535 gr.
Crystal size:mm. 20
Overall size:130mm x 80 mm x 50 mm
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Cerussite, Baryte - Touissit, Oriental Region, Morocco
(#12388_CERU_DANI)
Nice specimen offering transparent cerussite xx and pink baryte blades. Classic combo.
Specimen weight:90 gr.
Crystal size:20 mm on edge
Overall size:50mm x 43 mm x 36 mm
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Agardite-(Ce) - Clara Mine, Rankach valley, Oberwolfach, Wolfach, Black Forest, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
(#MINS8992)
Cluster of apple-green radiating sprays of Agardite-(Ce) on baryte matrix.
Specimen weight:5 gr.
Crystal size:2,5 mm
Overall size:20mm x 12 mm x 15 mm
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Langite - Podlipa deposit - Lubietová - Banská Bystrica Co. - Banská Bystrica reg. - Slovakia
(#MINS8987)
Cluster of dark azure Langite xls up to 1 mm set on matrix.
Specimen weight:22 gr.
Crystal size:up to 1 mm
Overall size:40mm x 30 mm x 18 mm
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Manganite - Manganese deposit, Ilfeld, Harztor, Nordhausen, Thuringia, Germany (TL)
(#MINS8988)
Here we see sharp and lustrous crystals of steel gray Manganite xls up to 1,2 cm. a nice specimen with well developed and sharp edged crystals. They are excellent striated as well, mostly superbly terminated.
Specimen weight:80 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 12 mm
Overall size:53mm x 25 mm x 35 mm
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Baryte on Pyrite and Sphalerite - Baia Sprie, Maramureș County, Romania
(#BALD0783)
Big Baryte's crystals aggregate, intersected with each other, laid on a matrix rich in sulfides (Pyrite and Sphalerite). Photographed under strong light.
Specimen weight:115 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 45 mm
Overall size:58mm x 44 mm x 40 mm
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Dundasite, Baryte - San Giovanni mine, Iglesias, Sardinia, Italy
(#11276_DUND_DANI)
Very nice white dundasite xx on a baryte xx.
Specimen weight:67 gr.
Crystal size:1 mm
Overall size:55mm x 55 mm x 10 mm
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Cerussite and baryte - Les Dalles mine – Mibladen – Ait Oufella Caid – Midelt – Draa-Tafilalet Region - Morocco
(#GM23055)
Graceful druse completely covered by small and large, almost botryoidal crystals of cerussite.
They have a honey color and are partially transparent too.
Some aggregates ...
Specimen weight:300 gr.
Crystal size:mm. 12
Overall size:82mm x 65 mm x 28 mm
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Baryte - Grube Clara - Oder Wolfach - Schwarzwald - Germany
(#MINS8675)
Cluster of Baryte xls up to 1,8 cm tall.
Specimen weight:136 gr.
Crystal size:up to 1,8 cm tall
Overall size:73mm x 50 mm x 38 mm
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Baryte - Settingstones mine, Northumberland, England, UK
(#11004_BARY_DANI)
Very nice baryte crystals cluster.
Specimen weight:217 gr.
Crystal size:10 mm
Overall size:80mm x 30 mm x 55 mm
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Baryte and pyrite - Lubin mine - Lubin Co. - Lower Silesian Voivodeship - Poland
(#GM23007)
Druse strewn with lamellar ocher crystals of baryte that are capped with a myriad of small shimmering crystals of pyrite
Specimen weight:425 gr.
Crystal size:mm. 16
Overall size:83mm x 70 mm x 42 mm
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Chalcedony - Mali
(#BALD0775)
Chalcedony's geode, with a marvelous, intense azure color, translucent, coming from an unknown locality in Mali. Collected in the early 2000's. Photographed undder strong light.
Specimen weight:182 gr.
Crystal size:-
Overall size:80mm x 60 mm x 64 mm
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Azure Baryte - Nador Province, Oriental Region, Morocco
(#BALD0758)
Nice Azure Baryte's sample, in crystals with intense azure color, shiny and intertwined with each other. Very aesthetic.
Specimen weight:114 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 52 mm
Overall size:71mm x 65 mm x 42 mm
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Selenite - Alabaster quarries, Fuentes de Ebro, Zaragoza, Aragón, Spain
(#BALD0753)
Extremely transparent Selenite's crystals up to 30 mm are scattered on a matrix of massive gypsum/alabaster, that has a cut at the base. The Selenite's crystals coming from this locality are considered among the best in the world. Aesthetic...
Specimen weight:726 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 30 mm
Overall size:111mm x 100 mm x 103 mm
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Hemimorphite - San Antonio Mine, Santa Eulalia Mining District, Chihuahua, Mexico
(#BALD0745)
Hemimorphite's mamelons developed on the matrix, made up of countless small shiny crystals with an unusual intense azure-grey color. From an unique and no longer repeated finding in 2005. Aesthetic and colorful sample.
Specimen weight:875 gr.
Crystal size:-
Overall size:112mm x 85 mm x 63 mm
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Hutchinsonite, Baryte - Quiruvilca mine, Santiago de Chuco, La Libertad, Peru
(#MINS8620)
Very fresh bright metallic Hutchinsonite crystals up to 5 mm with Baryte xls in association.
Specimen weight:174 gr.
Crystal size:5 mm
Overall size:80mm x 56 mm x 25 mm
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Baryte - Bou Nahas, Oumjrane mining area, Morocco
(#MINS8401)
From the moroccan desert nice barite twinned crystals with pyrite and quartz in associacion.
Specimen weight:15 gr.
Crystal size:4,3 cm wide
Overall size:17mm x 12 mm x 43 mm
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Baryte - Lavrion District Mines, Attiki Prefecture, Greece
(#FERR1581)
Floater featuring some white, chisel shaped Baryte crystals on the front side and calcite cristalized on the rear side. Internal phantoms are a nice ad to the sample aesthetics.
Nice combo piece from Greece.
Specimen weight:100 gr.
Crystal size:2,5 cm.
Overall size:75mm x 50 mm x 25 mm
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Baryte, Pyrite - Andalusia, Spain
(#12575_BARY_DANI)
Nice baryte xx on matrix with pyrite associated.
Specimen weight:52 gr.
Crystal size:5 mm
Overall size:45mm x 20 mm x 35 mm
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Baryte - Rio Bacchera Quarry, Nuxis, Sardinia, Italy
(#12119_BARY_DANI)
Nice deep yellow baryte xx on matrix.
Specimen weight:166 gr.
Crystal size:12 mm
Overall size:75mm x 50 mm x 30 mm
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Baryte - Moscona mine, Villabona, Asturias, Spain
(#10450_BARY_DANI)
Very nice blue baryte crystals cluster.
Specimen weight:208 gr.
Crystal size:18 mm
Overall size:95mm x 60 mm x 30 mm
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Baryte - Niccioletta Mine, Grosseto, Toscana, Italy
(#FERR1408)
Nice plate withe several clean well terminated colorless xls of Baryte scattered all atop.
Nice oldtimer from a classic italian locale now closed since decades.
Specimen weight:400 gr.
Crystal size:1.2 cm
Overall size:125mm x 80 mm x 43 mm
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Baryte over rhodochrosite - Felsobanya mine - Maramures - Romania
(#GM18055)
The cluster is covered by pink rhodochrosite: some blades, pale grey-blue colored barytes are grown over it.
Some of them are encrusted by yellow-brown carbonate ...
Specimen weight:1330 gr.
Crystal size:mm. 25
Overall size:143mm x 87 mm x 68 mm
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Hemimorphite - Santa Eulalia District, Mun. de Aquiles Serdán, Chihuahua, Mexico
(#BALD0605)
Thin little crystals, reunited in little spheres with a nice azure color. Some Calcite's crystals cover the Hemimorphite.
Specimen weight:216 gr.
Crystal size:-
Overall size:71mm x 72 mm x 37 mm
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Wulfenite with Baryte and Mimetite - San Francisco Mine (Cerro Prieto Mine), Cerro Prieto, Cucurpe, Mun. de Cucurpe, Sonora, Mexico
(#BALD0564)
Up to 13 mm yellow Wulfenite, with white Baryte's crystals and orange Mimetite. Aesthetic sample from this locality, with classical paragenesis.
Specimen weight:34 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 13 mm
Overall size:44mm x 36 mm x 31 mm
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Sampleite with Atacamite and Chrysocolla - Engańo Feliz Mine, Las Pintadas district, Tierra Amarilla, Copiapó Province, Atacama Region, Chile
(#BALD0420)
Well formed, vivid azure Sampleite's crystals make a good contrast with the light green Chrysocolla. There's also some dark green Atacamite's crystals.
Specimen weight:105 gr.
Crystal size:-
Overall size:50mm x 35 mm x 40 mm
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Azurite and Malachite - Oum Sisi, Alnif, Meknčs-Tafilalet Region, Morocco
(#7217_AZUR_DANI)
Very interesting combo offering most unusal flattened azurite crystals up to 13 mm covering/repkcing perphaps baryte crsytals? with globular malachite.
Specimen weight:530 gr.
Crystal size:13 mm
Overall size:130mm x 125 mm x 55 mm
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