Mineral: Barite on Calcite
Locality: Dushan, Qiannan Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province, China
Dimensions: 10,0 x 6,5 x 11,5 cm

Description: Main crystal size: 5,8 cm Orange-brown tablets in a bouquet on an apparently floating, translucent, polysynthetic crystal of calcite MIM number 1256 Photographer: Augustin de Valence (Aïnu)

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