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BARITE SPECIMEN LOCALITIES

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Asturias, near Caravia, Emilio mine
  Very clear fluorite cubes to 0.7 cm scattered on very white barite blades to 2.5 cm, 5 cm specimen; also translucent/white zoned blades to 4 cm, 7 cm specimen, some with barite druse, some with small scalenohedral calcites. Similar fluorite cubes on 5 cm piece.
   
Asturias, Berbes, La Cabaña
  Classic cream colored opaque curved bladed groups to 3.5 cm on small clear purple fluorite cubes, 8 cm.
   
Asturias, Ribadesella, near Caravia, Jaimina
  This noted fluorite locality also has barite; these crystals are about 3-4 cm. Anne Ondraka specimen, Jesse Fisher photo.
 
Asturias, Solis, Villabona mining area, Moscona mine
  Sparkly white ball of thin blades, 1.8 cm, on 1 cm yellow fluorite cubes. Also tabular blades, realgar included, to 2.5cm on fluorite with dolomite, small pyrites.
   
Cantabria, Viérnoles, Las Nieves quarry OR Los Belones, Cartagena, Murcia
  Orange tinged tabular crystal 4 cm, on small milky quartz crystals, 7 cm. Smaller barite blades are coated with quartz, but not the large one. Original label Portman, which would indicate Los Belones, but Jordi Fabre suggests Las Nieves, and indeed it perfectly matches MinDat.org specimens from there, and also has the quartz.
   
Ciudad Real, Almadén, (El Entredicho mine)
  Clear tabular crystals with brught red cinnabar crystal inclusions. Renato Pagano specimen; 1.7x4.2 cm specimen.
   
Guipúzcoa, Aizpea, Labores mine
  Clear thin tabular crystals 4x6 cm with tiny chalcopyrite crystals and impressions of former chalcopyrite crystals.
   
Murcia, near Cartagena, Los Belones
  Thick, blocky very pale blue crystals to 3 cm, 7.5 cm. Also thin white blades to 2.4 cm in group, 5 cm.
   
Murcia, near Cartagena, Los Belones (OR Murcia, Sierra de Cartagena, La Unión, Mazarrón-Águias, Pastrana)
  White tiny crystals forming delicate stalactites, 5 x5 cm specimen. Jordi Fabre thinks it may be from Los Belones, a development complex including a golf course sometimes labeled Portman. MinDat.org has a piece exactly like this labeled Delores Prospect, Pastrana, Mazarrón-Águias, La Unión.
   
Murcia, Sierra de Cartagena, La Unión district, Teresita mine
  Transparent blue blades in cluster, 5 cm.
   
Murcia, Sierra de Cartagena, La Unión district, Victoria mine
  Orange tabular crystals to 1.7 cm in 10 cm group. Also occurs as white crystals.
   

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