Crystal's Cave, Codreanu mine, Romania
Speleothems: Most commonly found in coatings, coralloids, crusts, flowstones, moonmilk, powder, minute crystals and less commonly, stalactites and stalagmites.
Location within cave: Present on the walls
First description of cave occurrence: B.P., 2002. Caves Formed Within Upper Cretaceous Skarns at Baita, Bigor County, Romania: Mineral Deposition and Spelogenesis. The Canadian Mineralogist, 40: 1693-1703.
Other cave locations & References: Surprise Cave at the Tony mine, Romania
Limestone
Group: Carbonates
Chemical formula: BaMg(CO3)2
[According to the official IMA-CNMNC List of Mineral Names (http://nrmima.nrm.se/imalist.htm)]
Color: Milky-white
Diagnostic features: The strongest 5 X-ray reflections d(Å)/I: 3.021/100, 2.506/35, 2.0144/30, 1.9355/27, 1.6294/31
X-ray powder-diffraction analyses and atomic absorption spectrometry
Chemical analysis: Atomic Absorption Spectrometry results: (wt %) 54.34 BaO, 14.27 MgO, 0.30 Fe2O3, amd 31.09 CO2
- Rhombohedral