An aid to labeling display quality barite specimens
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FORMER USSR & MIDDLE EAST
| KAZAKHSTAN | |
| Dzhezkazgan (oblast), Dzhezkazgan mine |  |
| Flesh colored opaque thin blades to 2 cm in 4 cm spray with quartz, calcite & chalcopyrite. | |
| KYRGYZSTAN | |
| Osh (oblast), Kadamzhay |  |
| Attractive clear yellowish tabular 5 cm blade with small stibnite blades piercing it. | |
| RUSSIA | |
Chelyabinsk, Zlatoust area |
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Milky square chisel crystals to <1 cm from this old mining area. *Edinburgh NMS images are copyrighted and reproduction and display are prohibited without written consent. http://www.nms.ac.uk/ |
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| Karachay-Cherkessia (republic), North Caucasus , Kuban' river, El' brusskiy mine |  |
| Gemmy, topaz/smoky colored tabular crystal 3x3 cm, fairly thick; faces without contacts virtually undamaged. Facetable material. Larger crystals occur, almost never undamaged. Orpiment crystals also occure here. Location on labels 35 km NW of Mt. Elbrus, Kuban River ; some give Elbrusskiy mine as NE in Kabardino-Balkaria but El' brusskiy and Kuban River are NW of the mountain, in Karachay-Cherkessia. | |
| Primorskiy Kray, Dal'negorsk, Nikolaevskiy mine |  |
| Gemmy yellow elongated tabular crystals to 4 cm with quartz& calcite;this specimen 9.5 cm tall. Uncommon. Some other habits/colors reported. This is a KARP specimen. | |
| UKRAINE | |
| Crimea, Kerch |   |
| Very opaque, smooth white 5 cm ball on sprays of very dark vivianite crystals to over 5 cm; 6.5 cm specimen. Also occurs as yellowish needle-like crystals to 3 cm in spheres and in shells like the phosphates and carbonates from Kerch. This clam shell replaced by rhodochrosite is 3.5 cm, the barite needles about 1.4 cm long. | |
| L'viv |  |
| Dark brown sparkling small crystals in botryoidal globules to 2 cm, small sulfur pieces, 7 cm. Exact mine uncertain; many sulfur mines in the area. |
BARITE SPECIMEN LOCALITIES
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