A Geoscience Digital Image Library
A Geoscience Digital Image Library
| Title | Barite on galena, from Versailles County, Missouri, USA |
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| Description | Here we see a glassy barite crystal (BaSO4) coated with red-brown limonite (Fe-oxide). The dark mineral is galena (PbS). This specimen is about 5 cm tall. |
| Location | USA ▹ Missouri ▹ Versailles |
| Photographer | Twyla Baker. 2001-05-30. |
| Collection | University of North Dakota Mineralogy Collection #879. |
| Key words | barite, galena, limonite |
| Tech details | 372 KB. Hand specimen. Fujifilm FinePix S1Pro digital camera; 60mm AF Nikon micro lens. |
| GeoDIL number | 570 |
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