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Description: | Pale blue diamond-shaped baryte crystals from west Cumbria, with small clusters of pyrite crystals. Baryte is a sulphate of barium. Its most distinctive property is its heaviness (more precisely, it is described as having a relatively high specific gravity). The indistinct lines within the crystals that are parallel to their edges are known as cleavage planes, along which the mineral breaks (cleaves, or splits), easily. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | rocks and minerals natural world | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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