An aid to labeling display quality barite specimens
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CANADA & MEXICO
CANADA |
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| British Columbia, Greenwood Mining Division, near Grand Forks, Rock Candy mine |   |
| Yellow crystal 5x2 cm on green fluorite; often in zoned translucent crystals like these thinner 2 cm blades on fluorite. | |
Newfoundland & Labrador, Aguathuna (Port au Port Peninsula) |
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Small nearly colorless chisel shaped crystals to 0.9 cm in groups, often with white barite overgrowth on corners. (Old Aguathuna limestone quarry or nearby Penneco barite quarry?) |
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| Newfoundland & Labrador, Colliers Bay |  |
| Flesh colored and white blades in rosettes, crystals to 2 cm or so. | |
Northwest Territories, Pine Point |
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Clear thick tabular crystals to 5+ cm. R&M 81/1. |
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| Nova Scotia, Cumberland Co., Five Islands | |
| Clear golden square tabular blades to 1.5 cm pressed in group into white/pink barite matrix, 3.5x5 cm overall. Possibly Eureka mine? Ex-Philadelphia Academy, J. L. Chipman specimen. | |
| Ontario, Hastings Co., Madoc, Rogers mine property |  |
| Cream colored rosettes to 1.5 cm with clearish/gray/green modified fluorite cubes; 6 cm. Occurs in better specimens. | |
| Ontario, Thunder Bay District, McKellar's Island and other localities |  |
| This iron stained stained crystal (through the glass) at the Seaman Museum about 8 cm. Also in transparent colorless crystals to 3 cm (Beaver Junior mine near O'Connor). | |
| Québec, Chicoutimi County, St-Honoré, Niobec mine |
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| Scepter on matrix, 11 cm, with smaller, clearer scepters, 14 cm; one of the best. Heavy pyrite coating, 5 cm. Classic flat tabular 3.5 cm cream/white crystal, complete floater, with tiny pyrites on it. Also occurs with tiny calcite crystals. | |
Québec, St-Fabien, Roy & Ross mine |
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Clear prismatic crystals somewhat resembling Book Cliffs, CO. This László Horváth specimen is 2.5x2.5 cm. |
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Québec, Montreal City, Montreal, Francon quarry |
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Several forms (MR 37/1). Crystals to 4 cm, often tabular, thick or thin or columnar. Colorless, white or pale yellow or pink. These are László Horváth specimens & photos. First specimen 4 cm tall; second specimen 4.5 cm. |
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Yukon Territory, Mayo Mining District, Elsa, Husky mine |
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Blocky, lustrous transparent crystals to 5 cm (Mark Mauthner) |
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| Yukon Territory, Dawson Mining District, Rock River, Touché Patience claims |  |
| White/blue blocky glassy translucent crystals to 5 cm. | |
MEXICO |
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| Chihuahua, Municipio Jimenez, San Pascual de las Adargas, San Pascual mine |   |
| Gray-blue tabular crystals to 2+ cm; reddish/brown (iron stain) inclusions, zoned; or smaller crystals with white rims, in groups. | |
| Chihuahua, Naica |  |
| Golden, squarish thin complete tabular blades to 2.5 cm with included pyrite crystals on white calcite, also scattered with pyrite. | |
| Chihuahua, Santa Eulalia, San Antonio mine | |
| Barite pseudomorphs after calcite to 2.5 cm, dirty brown color, "challenged." Megaw collection. | |
| Durango, Mapimi, Ojuela mine |    |
| Attractive clearish blades to 2.5 cm, greenish tinge, on limonite in 6.5 cm group. Also same, gold tinge, 4 cm group. Also thicker light blue tabular blades to 1.9 cm in group. | |
| Guerrero, Amatitlan |  |
| Tiny pink rosettes on quartz crystals to 9 cm. “Interesting” is best description. | |
| Guerrero, Taxco, El Solar mine |   |
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Fragile clear pale blue “arrows” to 7.5 cm group; thicker light blue tabular blades to 4.5 cm coated on one side and edges with clear/milky calcite balls/rhombs to 0.5 cm, 5.5x5 cm. |
| Guerrero, Taxco, Los Remedios mine |  |
| Pale thin opaque grey-beige blades to 2 cm covered with tiny bright pyrite crystals. | |
San Luis Potosi, Charcas |
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Light blue very translucent chisel crystals to 1.7 cm in group on danburite. |
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| Sonora, Magdalena, San Francisco mine |  |
| Sprays of white opaque tabular crystals, about 2.5 cm, with wulfenite and mimetite. | |
Veracruz, Las Vigas de Ramirez, Piedra Parada, Municipio de Tatatila |
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Very thin milky blades to 1x2+ cm dusted with micro red lepidicrocite crystals, with tiny quartz crystals and two nice 2.5 cm amethyst scepters.
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| Zacatecas, Nieves, Santa Rita mine |  |
| Euhedral gray/black (jamesonite inclusions) thick tabular crystal, 5.5 cm, tiny quartz and pyrite crystals on matrix. | |
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