Baryte (Barite) Crystal Twin, Book Cliffs area, Grand Junction, Mesa County, Colorado, USA
This exquisite, water-clear, gemmy baryte twin features textbook, side-by-side chisel terminations along with mirror-like faces with lovely striations. The Book Cliffs area is renowned for its world-class baryte specimens, which must be extracted from concretions in the Mancos shale host rock. The locality is a “must-have” for the serious collectors of the species or fine mineral specimens in general.
