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Foss barite mine, Aberfeldy

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Crystals and mineralsCrystals and minerals

Also reported: barite.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Stratiform barite in Dalradian schists, mined near Aberfeldy since the 1980s

Documented working mine in British geological literature.

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