At-A-Glance
Country of Origin
NJ
United States
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Essential Information
Specimen ID
6520
Mineral Name
Barylite
Chemical Formula
BaBe2Si2O7
Subcollection
Franklin and Sterling Hill Suite
Additional Details
Associated Minerals
Serpentine
Calcite
Specimen Number
F147
Notes for Researchers
1/430a
Physical Description
Red-fluorescent calcite, brown serpentine, small sheets of native copper, plus a 1.5-cm colorless glassy grain, probably barylite, enveloped in serpentine. Grain has good cleavage. This is the classic barylite assemblage, but specimens are few. If Princeton possesses an old iron-arc spark machine, used by early collectors as a source of UV light to show their fluorescent minerals, try it on this one. Barylite under the iron arc spark shows a fairly bright blue fluorescence. Under modern UV lamps it shows little or no response. Barylite is one of the rarest of the local minerals and has an interesting composition; it is a barium-beryllium silicate.
Geographic Origin
Locality Nickname
Franklin, New Jersey
Locality Lat/Long
41.1220409, -74.5804378
Mining District
Franklin Mining District
Mine Name
Franklin Mine