Barite Specimen Localities - Mineral Photos, Canada, Mexico

BARITE SPECIMEN LOCALITIES

An aid to labeling display quality barite specimens

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Click picture to enlarge. Unless noted all specimens are from Bill & Diana Dameron’s barite suite

CANADA & MEXICO

CANADA
British Columbia, Greenwood Mining Division, near Grand Forks, Rock Candy mine
	Yellow crystal 5x2 cm on green fluorite; often in zoned translucent crystals like these thinner 2 cm blades on fluorite.

Newfoundland & Labrador, Aguathuna (Port au Port Peninsula)
	Small nearly colorless chisel shaped crystals to 0.9 cm in groups, often with white barite overgrowth on corners. (Old Aguathuna limestone quarry or nearby Penneco barite quarry?)

Newfoundland & Labrador, Colliers Bay
	Flesh colored and white blades in rosettes, crystals to 2 cm or so.

Northwest Territories, Pine Point
	Clear thick tabular crystals to 5+ cm. R&M 81/1.

Nova Scotia, Cumberland Co., Five Islands
	Clear golden square tabular blades to 1.5 cm pressed in group into white/pink barite matrix, 3.5x5 cm overall. Possibly Eureka mine? Ex-Philadelphia Academy, J. L. Chipman specimen.

Ontario, Hastings Co., Madoc, Rogers mine property
	Cream colored rosettes to 1.5 cm with clearish/gray/green modified fluorite cubes; 6 cm. Occurs in better specimens.

Ontario, Thunder Bay District, McKellar's Island and other localities
	This iron stained stained crystal (through the glass) at the Seaman Museum about 8 cm. Also in transparent colorless crystals to 3 cm (Beaver Junior mine near O'Connor).

Québec, Chicoutimi County, St-Honoré, Niobec mine
	Scepter on matrix, 11 cm, with smaller, clearer scepters, 14 cm; one of the best. Heavy pyrite coating, 5 cm. Classic flat tabular 3.5 cm cream/white crystal, complete floater, with tiny pyrites on it. Also occurs with tiny calcite crystals.

Québec, St-Fabien, Roy & Ross mine
	Clear prismatic crystals somewhat resembling Book Cliffs, CO. This László Horváth specimen is 2.5x2.5 cm.

Québec, Montreal City, Montreal, Francon quarry
	Several forms (MR 37/1). Crystals to 4 cm, often tabular, thick or thin or columnar. Colorless, white or pale yellow or pink. These are László Horváth specimens & photos. First specimen 4 cm tall; second specimen 4.5 cm.

Yukon Territory, Mayo Mining District, Elsa, Husky mine
	Blocky, lustrous transparent crystals to 5 cm (Mark Mauthner)

Yukon Territory, Dawson Mining District, Rock River, Touché Patience claims
	White/blue blocky glassy translucent crystals to 5 cm.

MEXICO
Baja California Sur, Punta Conception
	Thin clear to milky needles to 1 cm densely packed on matrix, 4.5x7 cm overall; long (3 cm), thick (0.9 cm) crystals, grouped/integrown with multiple terminations, milky/very pale blue cast, 6x4 cm overall. Not glossy. Found/collected by Byron Wegee mid-1990s.

Chihuahua, Municipio Jimenez, San Pascual de las Adargas, San Pascual mine
	Gray-blue tabular crystals to 2+ cm; reddish/brown (iron stain) inclusions, zoned, 6x7 cm specimen. Also r smaller crystals (.04 cm) with white rims, in groups, 5x6 cm specimen. Dennis Beals' very attractive specimen has thin blue blades to 0.5 cm on the 7x8.5 cm specimen with tiny white calcites.

Chihuahua, Naica
	Golden, squarish thin complete tabular blades to 2.5 cm with included pyrite crystals on white calcite, also scattered with pyrite. A neat, tightly packed group of calcite scalenohedrons, not-quite-clear, to 1 cm on matrix with nice zoned tabular grey barite blade, 1.3 cm, another tiny barite, all covered with micro pyrite crystals. 10x4 cm (arguably a calcite specimen).

Chihuahua, Santa Eulalia, San Antonio mine
	Barite pseudomorphs after calcite to 2.5 cm, dirty brown color, "challenged." Megaw collection.

Chihuahua, San Pedro Corralitos, Congreso-Leon mine
	Thin, pointed opaque milky blades to 0.9 cm, some with attractive iron staining, completely covering barite matrix. 7x6.5 cm. Very thin clear blades to 2.4 cm in groups scattered on limonite matrix, 5.5x8.5 cm (Dennis Beals specimen).

Durango, Mapimi, Ojuela mine
	Attractive clearish blades to 2.5 cm, greenish tinge, on limonite in 6.5 cm group. Also same, gold tinge, 4 cm group. Also thicker light blue tabular blades to 1.9 cm in group.

Guanajuato, Guanajuato, La Sirena mine, 590 level
	Thin "rosette" of white blades 1.6 cm across, perched on 5.5x3.5 cm polybasite/pearceite matrix.

Guerrero, Amatitlan
	Tiny pink rosettes on quartz crystals to 9 cm. “Interesting” is best description.

Guerrero, Taxco, Guerrero mine, El Solar shaft
	Fragile clear pale blue “arrows” to 7.5 cm group; thicker light blue tabular blades to 4.5 cm coated on one side and edges with clear/milky calcite balls/rhombs, 5.5 cm specimen. Often labeld "El Solar" mine or "Level 4," El Solar mine.

Guerrero, Taxco, Los Remedios mine
	Pale thin opaque grey-beige blades to 2 cm covered with tiny bright pyrite crystals.

San Luis Potosi, Charcas
	DATOLITE: but unlike any other datolite. Came with a barite label. Will be tested to make sure it is datolite; looks much like barite. Light blue very translucent chisel crystals to 1.7 cm in group on danburite.

Sonora, Cananea, Milpillas mine
	Unusual thin light blue tabular blades to about 0.9 cm in a 3.5 cm group, much like Taxco material, perched on malachite; overall size about 6.5 cm. First seen at Denver September 2009 with Valenzuela minerals. Clear tabular 4 cm line of blades to 1.5x1 cm, with growth phantoms, perched on velvety malachite. 5.5x7 cm overall.

Sonora, Magdalena, San Francisco mine
	Sprays of white opaque tabular crystals, about 2.5 cm, with wulfenite and mimetite.

Veracruz, Las Vigas de Ramirez, Piedra Parada, Municipio de Tatatila
	Very thin milky blades to 1x2+ cm dusted with micro red lepidicrocite crystals, with tiny quartz crystals and two nice 2.5 cm amethyst scepters.

Zacatecas, Nieves, Santa Rita mine
	Euhedral gray/black (jamesonite inclusions) thick tabular crystal, 5.5 cm, tiny quartz and pyrite crystals on matrix.

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BARITE SPECIMEN LOCALITIES