Baryte with Cinnabar (classic material)

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Here we have a beautiful old-time specimen of the famous Clarashall Mine Barytes featuring sharp, glassy, bladed, gemmy crystals which play host to rarely seen red micro Cinnabar. In my experience, you typically see Cinnabar INCLUSIONS with these Barytes, but this piece has the Cinnabar actually sitting ON TOP of the Baryte crystals. You don't see many pieces from this mine on the market, since it closed in 1974, but they are truly some of the better quality Barytes you'll find from any German locality. From the worldwide mineral collection of Albert Lewis Kidwell (January 1, 1919 - August 16, 2008). Al was a well-known mineral collector and research geologist with Carter Oil Company and later Exxon Oil Company in Houston, Texas. The phosphate species Kidwellite was named in his honor in 1974.