Baryte

Item Description

An attractive, and fine quality golden Baryte specimen from this classic locality in the Massif Central of France. This large miniature / small cabinet piece features a few excellent, sharp, well-formed, lustrous, gemmy/translucent, thick bladed crystals measuring up to 3.1 cm, on minor matrix. Excellent quality, VERY little damage. If you're a fan of worldwide Barytes, French minerals or you just like attractive crystal formations, this is something you're not likely to find anywhere else on the market, so don't miss out.
From the collection of the long time, beloved, well-known French field collector, Paul Zerfass. Zerfass built this worldwide collection over nearly 50 years, many of which were personally collected. A biography featuring specimens from his collection (along with his face on the cover) is in the May - June 2017 issue of French mineral magazine, Le Règne Minéral. We have a .pdf copy of the article for anybody interested in reading it (though it's mostly in French). Just drop us a line and know that you'd like to have it.