Pyrite on Barite “box” and Barite

A novelty at St. Marie 2013. Echeloned growths of Pyrite perched on sharp casts left by preexisting thick tabular Barite crystals that have been dissolved and subsequently replaced by a second generation of smaller colorless and transparent crystals of the same Barite partially coating the Pyrite. Bou Nahas, Oumjrane area, Alnif, Errachidia Morocco (04/2013) Specimen size: 9.5 × 8.6 × 5.8 cm = 3.7” × 3.4” × 2.3”