Fluorite, Sphalerite, Baryte, Calcite, Chalcopyrite - image 1

Fluorite, Sphalerite, Baryte, Calcite, Chalcopyrite - image 2

Fluorite, Sphalerite, Baryte, Calcite, Chalcopyrite - image 3

Fluorite, Sphalerite, Baryte, Calcite, Chalcopyrite - image 4

Fluorite, Sphalerite, Baryte, Calcite, Chalcopyrite

This really neat "combo specimen" has 4 of the big Illinois species. Emplaced on massive sphalerite are lustrous, black sphalerite crystals, to 4 cm across; unusual spheres of white Baryte, to 1.8 cm across; two, lustrous and translucent, amber colored fluorite crystals, to 2.1 cm across; and colorless, scaleohedrons of translucent calcite to 1.8 cm in length. The combination of shapes and colors and geometries is really interesting to look at! Surprisingly, it is the ball-shaped botryoids of snow white Baryte that draw my own eye the most. RCL 209, mined 1992.

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Product details

Species

Barite, Fluorite, Chalcopyrite, Sphalerite, Calcite

SizeCabinet

Dimensions11.6 x 11.1 x 7.6 cm

Locality

USA, Illinois, Minerva No. 1 Mine

Added on10/23/2024

Comments

Known provenance

2024/08