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Baryte : BaSO4, Fluorite : CaF2 | |
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Denton mine, Goose Creek Mine Group, Harris Creek Sub-District, Illinois - Kentucky Fluorspar District, Hardin Co., Illinois, USA This superb miniature really stands out amongst others I have seen, even back in the heyday of these mines. The crystals are large, lustrous, and translucent. they have the best rich golden hue you can ask for from the locality. Importantly, they are perched perfectly on matrix of sharp, cubic, purple fluorite! It is a gorgeous specimen and a rare ... |
| © Rob Lavinsky | Photo ID: 34684 View Count: 316 |
Baryte : BaSO4, Fluorite : CaF2 | |
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Denton mine, Goose Creek Mine Group, Harris Creek Sub-District, Illinois - Kentucky Fluorspar District, Hardin Co., Illinois, USA This mine is noted for fine calcite crystals on fluorite. However this is an especially fine cluster of slightly radiating crystals of amber-colored, lustrous, bladed barite which is perched on purple fluorite. In turn, the fluorite is studded with tiny calcite crystals. The longest barite is 3 cm in length. There is one slight (natural?) divot in ... |
| © Rob Lavinsky | Photo ID: 39950 View Count: 270 |
Baryte : BaSO4, Calcite : CaCO3, Fluorite : CaF2 | |
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Denton mine, Goose Creek Mine Group, Harris Creek Sub-District, Illinois - Kentucky Fluorspar District, Hardin Co., Illinois, USA 4.9 x 2.8 x 1.4 cm. This pretty mini came out of the collection of Illinois collector Ross Lillie. The accompanying label says it came from "advance mining in 1-83 from the northwest edge main ore body." What makes it really cool is this gemmy, tabular golden BARYTE, which beautifully complements the zoned purple fluorites decorated with little ... |
| © Rob Lavinsky | Photo ID: 162630 View Count: 99 |
Baryte : BaSO4, Fluorite : CaF2 | |
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Denton mine, Goose Creek Mine Group, Harris Creek Sub-District, Illinois - Kentucky Fluorspar District, Hardin Co., Illinois, USA 6.5 x 4.4 x 3.1 cm. Another very unusual AND beautiful Marty Zinn specimen. You mostly think of fluorite and calcite when you think of the Denton Mine, with baryte as an "accessory" mineral. But here, you have a stunning specimen where baryte is the star -- in the form of lustrous, frosty arch-shaped crystals on a base of yellow fluorite! The ... |
| © Rob Lavinsky | Photo ID: 171584 View Count: 90 |
Baryte : BaSO4, Fluorite : CaF2 | |
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Denton mine, Goose Creek Mine Group, Harris Creek Sub-District, Illinois - Kentucky Fluorspar District, Hardin Co., Illinois, USA 6.4 x 5.9 x 3.4 cm. A fine Illinois specimen out of the noted collection of Dawn Minette, combining dark purple cubes of fluorite (to just over 3 cm across the edge) with translucent, platy crystals of baryte. Ex. Minette Collection. |
| © Rob Lavinsky | Photo ID: 167789 View Count: 64 |
Baryte : BaSO4, Fluorite : CaF2 | |
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Denton mine, Goose Creek Mine Group, Harris Creek Sub-District, Illinois - Kentucky Fluorspar District, Hardin Co., Illinois, USA 4.7 cm tall with very minor purple fluorite |
| © Dan & Diana Weinrich Minerals | Photo ID: 228118 View Count: 24 |
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