Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Baryte & Malachite

Views:
Watches:
BMM1040811

Baryte & Malachite

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Mavrolakkas, Kastro Valley, Limenaria, Thasos, East Macedonia and Thrace, Greece
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8.2 × 5 × 4.8 cm
Description

Barite and siderite on dark limonite/goethite matrix. The Barite crystals range in diameter up to 3.5 cm. Green spherical malachite and white siderite has grown on the barite. The malachite and the siderite provide the excellent color contrast. This great piece comes from an old Greek iron mine. Such barite are not offered on the mineral market and new discoveries are no longer possible.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Baryte

Formula: 
BaSO4
Strunz: 
7.AD.35
Hardness: 
3.0 - 3.5
Streak: 
White

Malachite

Formula: 
Cu2(CO3)(OH)2
Strunz: 
5.BA.10
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0

Current price

Starting price

10
(reserve not met) (reserve met)

You are the highest bidder

You have been outbid

Proxy bid set
Delayed bid pending at
Delayed Bid is Outbid

Your maximum bid €:

(Enter or more)

Start 13 Apr 18:00
End
No. of bids view history

Shipping Information

Postage Area Price
Austria
5
EU
18
Rest of Europe
20
USA, Canada, Japan, 1 kg
25
Australia, New Zealand, 1 kg
30

Bid History

Full bid history