| P number: | P527637 |
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| Caption: | Barytes from Gass Water, Cronberry, Cumnock, Ayrshire. |
| Description: | This mineral specimen of barytes is from the Gass Water Mines near Cumnock in Ayrshire. The veins from which it is found have been known since before 1870 and were first opened up by the Hedworth Barium Company Limited which carried out development work and mining from 1917 to 1921. British Geological Survey Petrology Collection sample number MC 7417. The barytes spar was obtained by stoping from an adit level but the total amount raised was only 7976 tons. In the Gass Water area barytes has been deposited along fault-crushes and fractures in a belt of country about two-thirds of a mile wide. The barytes is generally opaque and is of two main types, coarse platy 'cock's comb' barytes of a general white to pale pinkish colour, this is of the best quality; and compact and much less coarsely crystalline pink barytes with confused 'cock's comb' development. |
| Date taken: | 25/06/1905 |
| Photographer: | Unknown |
| Copyright statement: | Unknown |
| Orientation: | Landscape |
| Size: | 168.12 KB; 1000 x 665 pixels; 85 x 56 mm (print at 300 DPI); 265 x 176 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
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