Baryte with Sulfur (Kidwell Coll.)

Item Description

This sculptural large mounded 3-dimensional specimen is covered with sparkly rosettes of glassy, translucent, two-toned beige barite blades. The attachment on the bottom shows that the barite crystals rest on glassy sulfur crystals, massive sulfur and matrix. The famous Machow Mine open pit sulphur mine is famous for excellent sulphur, baryte and celestine specimens. Ex Al Kidwell Collection. 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. See the 1992 Mineralogical Record article in Vol. 23, No. 1. Rich and classic large barite from the locale.