Baryte

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This specimen is labeled as coming from Liskeard, Cornwall, but I can't find a report of Baryte from anywhere in Liskeard, so we're leaving it simply as Cornwall. With that said, Baryte specimens are not too terribly common from Cornwall, and this is a nice representative piece of the material featuring sharp, lustrous, soft golden to smoky-beige colored bladed crystals measuring up to 2.7 cm on edge, with a bit of gemmy, pale golden Fluorite underneath. Good condition overall, though there are some contacted areas, but if you collect Barytes or Cornish minerals, this is something that you don't often see for sale on the market these days.
From the worldwide mineral collection of Albert Lewis Kidwell (January 1, 1919 - August 16, 2008). Al was a well-known mineral collector and research geologist with Carter Oil Company and later Exxon Oil Company in Houston, Texas. The phosphate species Kidwellite was named in his honor in 1974.