Barite (good quality)

Item Description

From a find about 9 years ago in Bolivia. This find from the Colavi District, was one of the more exciting things to come out of Bolivia in recent memory. These crystals are some of the better quality Barites I have seen from Bolivia and compare favorably to other Barite crystals from any other world locality extant. The crystals on this specimen are good quality, sharp, well-formed, lustrous, water-clear to translucent, colorless, tabular blades up to 7 mm. The final touch to these Barites is that they are sitting atop beautiful, tiny, crystallized, sharp, lustrous, compressed rhombohedra of chocolate brown (nearly black) Siderite on matrix. This is one of the last pieces of this material that I have left so don't pass it by.