5.8" Honey Colored Barite Crystals on Fluorescent Calcite - Elk Creek

This is a top quality, 5.8" specimen of pristine, honey-colored barite crystals on a matrix of yellow calcite. It comes from Elk Creek in Meade County, South Dakota. Under short wave UV, these crystals react by fluorescing white-yellow

One edge of the specimen has been cut flat. Comes with an acrylic display stand.

About Elk Creek Calcite

Superb rhombohedral crystals of septarian calcite occur in cavities within large concretions from the 70-million-year-old Pierre Shale in Elk Creek, South Dakota. The calcite crystals can be yellow, orange, or gold in color and are sometimes associated with golden barite crystals and selenite. The calcite crystals fluoresce a bright yellow-white under shortwave UV light.
FOR SALE
$595
DETAILS
SPECIES
Calcite & Barite
LOCATION
Elk Creek, Meade County, South Dakota
SIZE
5.8 x 4.5"
CATEGORY
ITEM
#321964