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Barite (ex Rich Kosnar Collection)
- Black Cloud mine, Leadville, Lake County, Colorado
- Thumbnail, 2.6 x 2.2 x 1.7 cm
- Start Time: 04/14/2011 6:45:00 pm (CDT)
- End Time: 04/21/2011 6:45:00 pm (CDT)
- Auction Closed
Item Description
The Black Cloud mine is well known for it's sulfide specimens, but it has also produced some of the classic "golden" Barite for which the Leadville Mining District is renowned. Here we have an attractive display piece with layered, curved, gemmy, lustrous, bladed golden Barite crystals on matrix. This specimen is at leat 30 years old, and possibly older as it resembles other Black Cloud Barites that I have seen which were found in the 1960's and 1970's. This area has produced some of the finest Barites from Colorado, and these specimens are highly sought after by Colorado collectors.