Fluorite and baryte
Deep violet-blue inter-grown cubic crystals of fluorite (cube and tetrahedron). Overgrown on calcite with subsequent overgrowth by spheroidal aggregates 0f fine bladed crystals of baryte. Specimen found at Castleton in Derbyshire.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 185/1914
- Collection Class
- Minerals
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Collector Excavator
- French, Mrs C V J (from the collection of)
- Common Name
- fluorite and baryte
- Simple Name
- mineral
- Period Classification
- Edwardian (1901-1914)
