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Baryte from
La Rochette, Chaudfontaine, Liège, Wallonia, Belgium

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Occurrence

Classification

Species:

Baryte

Formula:

BaSO₄

Chemical Analyses:

Oxide wt%:

	1
BaO	62.46 %
SrO	0.35 %
SO₃	33.08 %
Fe₂O₃	0.25 %
SiO₂	0.25 %
H₂O	2.00 %
Total:	98.39 %

Sample references:

1	-	Davreux, C. (1833) Essai sur la constitution géognostique de la province de Liège. Mémoire de l'Académie royale de Bruxelles, Mémoire couronné in 4°, 9.

Comments:

Cesàro (1897) erroneously indicates Prayon as the occurrence (Hatert et al., 2002).

Habit:

combinations of {101}{201}{011}{101}{102};
transparent multifaceted tabular crystals;
more or less spherical tufts of tabular {001}{201}{011}{210} crystals, twinned according to {12.1.0};
radially grown acicular crystals elongated according to the [010] axis forming spherical aggregates

Colour:

yellow(ish), brown, black

Confirmation

Validity:

Believed Valid

Data

Mineral Data:

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Locality Data:

Click here to view La Rochette, Chaudfontaine, Liège, Wallonia, Belgium

Data Identifiers

Mindat Occurrence Record ID:

312114

Long-form Identifier:

1:3:312114:6

GUID (UUID V4):

Nearest other occurrences of Baryte

0.6km (0.4 miles)

ⓘ Brouck, Forêt, Trooz, Liège, Wallonia, Belgium

1.1km (0.7 miles)

ⓘ Prayon, Forêt, Trooz, Liège, Wallonia, Belgium

1.2km (0.7 miles)

ⓘ Unnamed Pb-Zn deposit, Chaudfontaine, Liège, Wallonia, Belgium

3.1km (1.9 miles)

ⓘ Trooz quarry, Olne, Liège, Wallonia, Belgium

4.7km (2.9 miles)

ⓘ Colonster, Sart Tilman, Angleur, Liège, Liège, Wallonia, Belgium

7.5km (4.6 miles)

ⓘ Ogné, Sprimont, Liège, Wallonia, Belgium

8.6km (5.3 miles)

ⓘ Rondia quarry, Sprimont, Liège, Wallonia, Belgium

10.0km (6.2 miles)

ⓘ Poulseur, Comblain-au-Pont, Liège, Wallonia, Belgium

10.5km (6.5 miles)

ⓘ Chanxhe, Sprimont, Liège, Wallonia, Belgium

10.6km (6.6 miles)

ⓘ Chanxhe quarry, Chanxhe, Sprimont, Liège, Wallonia, Belgium

References

Davreux, C. (1833) Essai sur la constitution géognostique de la province de Liège. Mémoire de l'Académie royale de Bruxelles, Mémoire couronné in 4°, 9.

de Koninck, L.L. (1874) Sur des échantillons de quartz et de barytine. Annales de la Société géologique de Belgique, 1, LVIII.

Cesàro, G. (1897) Description des minéraux phosphatés, carbonatés et sulfatés du sol belge. Mémoires de l'Académie royale de Belgique, in 4°, 53, 136 pages.

Mélon, J., Bourguignon, P., Fransolet, A.-M. (1976) Les minéraux de Belgique. Editions G. Lelotte, Dison .

Dejonghe, Léon; Wautier, Jacques; Laduron, Dominique (1985) Réflectance et composition chimique des bravoïtes du gîte sédimentaire de Chaudfontaine et du gîte filonien de La Rochette (Province de Liège, Belgique). Bulletin de Minéralogie, 108 (5). 679-690 doi:10.3406/bulmi.1985.7884

Hatert, F., Deliens, M., Fransolet, A.-M., Van Der Meersche, E. (2002) Les minéraux de Belgique (2nd ed.) Muséum des Sciences Naturelles, Bruxelles.

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Baryte from La Rochette, Chaudfontaine, Liège, Wallonia, Belgium

Baryte from
La Rochette, Chaudfontaine, Liège, Wallonia, Belgium