Mineral: Barite
Locality: Murray Mine, Independence Mountains District, Elko County, Nevada, USA
Dimensions: 7.2 x 8.2 cm

Description: Colorless, blocky barite crystals to 1.2 cm coated with colorless sugary quartz. The quartz druze shows a preferential gray tint on one side of the specimen, perhaps due to included stibnite or other sulfides.

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