An aid to labeling display quality barite specimens
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Click picture to enlarge. Unless noted all specimens are from Bill & Diana Dameron’s barite suite
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| Elko. Co., Meikle mine |   |
| Gemmy thick (nearly 1 cm) clear golden crystals to 3.5 cm (occur larger), with small milky/clear calcite crystals, 7.5 cm. Also clearer tabular crystals to 4x4 cm in group (pictured R&M 74/6). | |
| Elko Co., Dee mine |   |
| Flattened light to dark amber crystals to 2.5 cm in cluster with microscopic pyrite inclusions, 7 cm (pictured MR 31/3). Also similar piece, more transparent crystals to 3 cm. | |
| Elko Co., Murray mine |    |
| "Sugar cube" (quartz coated) blocky barite crystals to 2 cm in 8 cm group (occur larger); similar 7 cm group with 3 cm crystals partially coated with quartz and partially not (lustrous barite faces). Also interesting flat, fairly clear thick tabular 3 cm crystal with tiny stibnite crystals on edges; hollow center of barite crystal has a tiny stibnite needle in it, all perched on blocky barite crystal with tiny stibnite crystals, 5.5 cm overall. | |
| Elko Co., SSX mine (South Saval Extension) |  |
| Clear pale golden crystals to 2 cm perched on sulfide matrix, 7.5 cm. | |
| Eureka Co., Lynn district, Goldstrike Pit |  |
| Transparent yellow blades to 1.5 cm on sparkling matrix, small stibnite crystals, 4 cm. | |
| Humboldt Co., Sequoia pit, Lone Tree mine |  |
| Clear to grey lustrous fairly thick tabular crystals to 1.6 cm on edge; backs coverd with drusy barite. 3.6x4 cm specimen. | |
Humboldt Co., Pinson mine |
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Balls of thickish blades, concrete-like texture, warm beige to sand color. |
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| Humboldt Co., Twin Creeks mine |  |
| Attractive milky/clear tabular blades to 3 cm, pronounced sawtooth edges, in group on orpiment crystals, 7.5 cm. | |
Mineral County, Queen Valley |
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Small (to 1.25 cm) white blades in groups. Gene Tribbey specimen. |
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Mineral County, Rawhide district, Regent mine |
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Lustrous tabular thin crystals to 2 cm with orpiment and other inclusions. |
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| Nye County, Northumberland mine |   |
| Classic locality. Fairly clear gray prismatic crystals to 2.5 cm in group, milky centers, 5 cm Also transparent gold prismatic crystals to 2.5 cm on matrix, 6 cm overall. | |
| Pershing County, Hecla Rosebud mine |   |
| Two blocky, porcelain-white tabular crystals, 1.5+cm each, 3 cm specimen. Also interesting gray equant crystal, 3x3 cm, showing prominent "growth hummocks" on front face. |
BARITE SPECIMEN LOCALITIES
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