Barite Thin Section

Baryte commonly occurs in lead zinc veins in limestones in hot spring deposits and with hematite ore.

Barite thin section. It sometimes forms tufa cious mounds from deposition of hot barium rich springs. Barite often replace s other minerals and may even replace organic materials such as wood shells and fossil s. Brucite thin section photomicrographs are taken in plane polarized light and cross polarized light and can easily be recognized under the microscope.

This is a thin section of radial growths of barite or heavy spar. It is often associated with the minerals anglesite and celestine. Ward s barite specimens mineral specimens mineral thin sections when minerals rocks and fossils cannot be accurately identified by macroscopic observation and testing thin section slides can reveal the composition and structure of the specimens on a microscopic level.

The mineral gypsum also contains similar desert roses but gypsum roses are much light in weight and are more brittle and thin.