Crystal Prospect

colorless BARYTE crystals and GYPSUM "ram's horns" - Julcani Mine, Peru

Clear Baryte (Barite) tabular crystals with white Gypsum on the base around it - some are curved into "ram's horn" shape.

The Baryte fluoresces in a pale color SW and LW, with short lived phosphorescence.

from Julcani Mine, Julcani District, Angaraes Province, Huancavelica Department, Peru

Measures approximately 2 x 1.25 x 1.25 inch, 2.04 oz / 51 x 32 x 32 mm, 58g

Price: 40.00 USD

Item # A1981213

To show the fluorescent response the specimen was illuminated using 6 watt 254nm (Short Wave) / 366nm  (Long Wave) UVGL-58 lamp (you need a UV light source to observe the fluorescence, more powerful lamp = brighter response).