Barytocalcite

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Truly fine specimens of Barytocalcite, barium calcium carbonate, are extremely rare and I am told all are older than at least several decades (if not over a hundred years old). This is a very showy, large specimen with unusually large and isolated crystals, shooting up in every direction. It is actually, for a lusterless gray-white mineral, not so ugly