Baryte (hard to find locality specimen)

Item Description

An uncommon specimen from the lesser-known Buckshot Mine in central Missouri which only operated from 1938 to 1943. The piece features a group of very good quality, sharp, lustrous, gemmy, white/colorless, bladed crystals of Baryte measuring up to 3.2 cm, sitting on matrix. The piece is in very good condition, with minor roughness in a few spots. It's also a notably aesthetic specimen, which isn't common for this material, as most of the pieces you'll see from this locality are single crystals, off matrix, and groups with LUSTROUS, GEMMY crystals like this are rare. A must have piece for any fan of worldwide Barytes or minerals from the Midwestern United States. 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 ( https://www.mindat.org/photo-326405.html ).