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[Sante Celiberti]

Really beautiful, Bob. Congratulations.

[Bob Harman]

Another interesting large cabinet size example.

These specimens are well received in my display cases at the regional shows. The example's sizes and coming from regional or local areas make the general show going public really connect with them.
Especially those specimens that say "self-collected" on the labels.
On many occasions parents with youngsters have come up to me saying my display cases were the type they, and their kids, most appreciate at these shows.

This example is of baryte and ferroan dolomite on quartz, still freshly contained in the fossiliferous limestone host rock.
Two things of note; you can see bits of crinoid stems in the lower right side of the matrix and, hard to see in this example, the barytes contain inclusions of marcasite and smythyite.
Smythite is the only mineral first identified in Indiana, with the Harrodsburg road cuts in Monroe County being the type locality.

[19Kath93]