Re: Baryte, Ukraine

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Baryte, Ukraine

Can you help make this a better article? What good localities have we missed? Can you supply pictures of better specimens than those we show here? Can you give us more and better information about the specimens from these localities? Can you supply better geological or historical information on these localities?

Baryte, Ukraine
BaSO4 Orthorhombic

Baryte
Ukraine

Crimea Oblast', Crimea peninsula, Kerch peninsula, Kerchenskoe deposit

Barite usually in sprays of needle-like crystals there, sometimes reaching 2 to 3 cm but usually smaller, golden or brown. Also in neat spherules. Celestine does not form such crystals at Kerch. See Mineralogical Almanac, Vol. 8, 2005.

Barite & Vivianite 6 cm specimen	© Bill Dameron

Baryte
Ukraine

L'viv Oblast' Sulphur Mines

These bladed brown balls of barite are seen from time-to-time but without more a more precise locality. Can anybody help?




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Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 12/28/2012 08:46PM by Rock Currier.

Good stuff, Bill. The barite in the clam shell is particularly cute.

Rock Currier
Crystals not pistols.