Baryte (good quality)

Item Description

This small cabinet sized piece is a very attractive specimen featuring gemmy, sharp, lustrous, golden Barite crystals on matrix from the famous Meikle Mine. If you look closely, you can see some of the crystals have beautiful internal "phantoms". The largest Barite crystal measures 3.5 cm across. Good quality, classic material and hard to photograph/video, and I would say better in person. Priced at $1,500 in the inventory. From the collection of William ("Bill") (1927-2006) and Anne (1928-2021) Cook of Cleveland, Ohio. This husband and wife duo were actively involved in the mineral world for many decades. Bill was a PhD geologist, and Anne was a mathematician, and they both were very serious mineral collectors. Bill served for many years as adjunct curator of mineralogy at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, and Anne was inducted into the Micromounters' Hall of Fame on October 12, 2019. Both Bill and Anne, at various times, served as president both of the Mineralogical Society of Cleveland and of the Micromineral Society of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, and Anne was inducted into the mi The rare barium lithium beryllium phosphate Wilancookite was named in their honor in 2015.