Minerals / Witherite, Gorn mine. (CWO)

Witherite, Barium carbonate, BaCO3. Gorn mine, Nr. Llanidloes, Central Wales Orefield. Small pieces of witherite, possibly fragments of much larger pieces. The specimens are translucent, and dark cream in colour with no definite crystals observed. However there are parallel growth lines on most pieces found. The specimens were collected from an overgrown sorting floor at the mine.

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