Natural Rare Bladed Barite Specimens with Malachite x 6 From Shangulowé Mine, Congo NICK'S PICK A trio of beautifully polished A trio of beautifully polished Podocarpus podocarpus Petrified Wood standing display pieces with colourful red Uniquely mined in Madagascar and made locally in a Malagasy owned workshop The transparent to translucent Barite combined with colourful secondary minerals creates attractive matrix specimens and single crystals with interesting colour zoning and mineral associations These Barite specimens from Congo form well developed tabular to bladed crystals that frequently host or are closely associated with a wide variety of minerals including Malachite