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Locality: Cavnic Mine, Maramureș County, Romania
Barite commonly forms well-shaped crystals, with more than 70 crystal forms recorded, usually as thin to thick tablets or prisms, and sometimes as crested or rosette-like clusters. It can be colourless, white, yellow, brown, grey or pale red, green or blue, and is often colour-zoned. It typically grows in low-temperature hydrothermal veins.
The Cavnic mine lies in Maramureș County in northwestern Romania, in the Baia Mare mining region. Its ore formed in a Neogene epithermal system hosted by volcanic rocks, with veins full of cavities and crystal-lined pockets that produced lead, zinc, copper, gold and silver ores. The Handbook of Mineralogy lists Cavnic, known historically as Kapnikbánya, among its notable localities for barite.
While the mine was working, Cavnic was the most productive source of mineral specimens in the Maramureș mining area, and pyrite is among the minerals most often found with its barite. After the mines closed and were sealed, the headframes were removed and the shafts flooded, so specimens from Cavnic are no longer being produced.
This one of a kind Blue Barite on Pyrite specimen from Romania displays a beautiful arrangement of pale icy-blue to silvery translucent Barite crystals growing across a natural Pyrite matrix. The piece has an attractive open-center formation, with well-defined blocky to tabular Barite crystals framing a recessed pocket that adds depth and visual interest. Soft blue flashes, glassy lustre, and layered crystal growth contrast nicely against the darker metallic Pyrite beneath, giving the specimen a clean, sculptural appearance.
Quantity: 1pc
With this product, you will get the actual stone in the photograph.