Transparent to whitish barite mineralization was found in an orogenic late phase leached fault zone. It seems that some of the barites are pseudomorphs replaced by snow white baritocalcite. This replacement supposedly took place at an even later phase when calcium-rich fluids migrated through the formation. This theory is supported by the occurrence of floater quartz crystals in a pocket where, on the one side, the quartz aggregates display the luster of ‘bergkristall’ and are coated on t...


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