Talk:Baryte

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I have added a redirect from Baryte (the British spelling) to this page.

Dlloyd 01:56, 28 Jul 2004 (UTC)

I wish to also add that in some areas barite is also known as "heavy spar" (uSER: OBASSI, ETTU 12:12 6th AugusT 2004 (RMRDC, MAITAMA- ABUJA)

I note that 'baryte' is actually the official spelling approved by the International Mineralogical Association (see www.mindat.org for refs), so the redirections should actually be the other way round. 'Heavy spar' is an unofficial miners' term of historical interest. AGC.

No - keep as is. It's another British/American English thing. As per Wiki reccommendations we normally stay with first use which was the article creation 25 June 2002. IMA may reccommend baryte for whatever reasons, but wiki is not bound by the IMA in spelling issues. Google search returns 809,000 for barite versus 292,000 for baryte for whatever it's worth. The baryte redirect now only has five links. Vsmith 20:55, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Actually the IMA is on the same level as say the International zoological association and others. as the governing body the decision to use the Baryte spelling, the original spelling before the trend to "Americanize" mineral names, IS as binding as a nomenclature name for a primate species. Because the name change was only at most or two ago the google results are going to be skewed to the Barite spelling. This page should be redirected to the offical spelling. Kevmin 21:15, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Misidentified Specimen

The alleged specimen of "baryte (barite) with galena and hematite", is in fact Schalenblende - a layered botryoidal mixture of wurtzite (dark) and sphalerite (light) with minor galena and marcasite. It is from the Pomorzany Mine, Olkusz, Poland - a Mississippi Valley Type deposit in Triassic carbonates altered to Fe-rich dolomites. I have a polish geologist friend who's uncle (T. Stanislawski) works in the mine and she gave me a sample. I did a little research into the nature of the unusual material which I originally mistook for an strange form of Banded Iron Formation. --Diamonddavej (talk) 17:25, 25 March 2008 (UTC)