Where to Find Barite in Utah
Utah barite shows up in vein and bedded forms across the central and western ranges. The Stansbury Mountains in Tooele County yield tabular blue and clear barite blades in carbonate vugs, and the Lakeside Mountains add yellow-to-honey barite associated with lead-zinc mineralization. The Cedar City iron district in Iron County carries barite as a gangue mineral with hematite and magnetite. Smaller showings line the cuts through the San Francisco district near Milford, where barite occurs with galena and cerussite. Crystal habit ranges from cleavable masses to tabular plates several centimeters across, and the best blue specimens come from the Stansbury occurrences.
Spot list checked against source data on April 1, 2026.
Every barite spot we track in Utah
Best spotFriscoBeaver County, UtahPublic access · Azurite, Barite, Calamine +12- Best spotMarysvillePiute County, UtahPublic access · Cinnabar, Alunite, Albite +11
AltaSalt Lake County, UtahPublic access · Apatite, Biotite, Barite +14- Park City mining districtSummit County, UtahPublic access · Barite, Calcite, Chlorite +12
Bullion CanyonPiute County, UtahCheck locally · Azurite, Barite, Cerussite +11- Cactus MineBeaver County, UtahPublic access · Azurite, Barite, Chalcopyrite +11
- Desert MountainJuab County, UtahPublic access · Antlerite, Bornite, Fluorite +11
- Pilot RangeBox Elder County, UtahPublic access · Alunite, Azurite, Barite +11
- Big Cottonwood mining districtSalt Lake County, UtahPublic access · Actinolite, Barite, Orthoclase +10
- Granite MountainIron County, UtahPublic access · Actinolite, Albite, Amethyst +10
- Tintic MountainsJuab County, UtahPublic access · Pyrolusite, Siderite, Cerussite +10
- Bingham CanyonSalt Lake County, UtahPublic access · Actinolite, Barite, Bismuth +8
- East Erickson mining districtTooele County, UtahPublic access · Galena, Pyrite, Quartz +8
- Carbonate Gem MinesSalt Lake County, UtahPublic access · Anglesite, Barite, Cerussite +5
- Silver Island MountainsTooele County, UtahPublic access · Azurite, Barite, Cerussite +4
- Kitchen Corral WashKane County, UtahPermission required · Barite, Calcite, Chalcedony +2
- Swan CreekRich County, UtahPublic access · Azurite, Barite, Cerussite +2
- The NeedlesGrand County, UtahPublic access · Barite, Calcite, Manganite +2
- Courthouse WashGrand County, UtahPermission required · Barite, Calcite, Limonite +1
- Gold MountainPiute County, UtahPublic access · Alunite, Barite, Garnet +1
- Ibapah MountainsTooele County, UtahPublic access · Aquamarine, Barite, Beryl +1
- Tenmile WashGrand County, UtahPublic access · Barite, Calcite, Pyrolusite
Standout barite spots in Utah
Hand-picked from the full list above, with the reason each one earns a trip.
Frisco
Beaver County
Frisco combines a major historic silver-lead camp with a long mineral list that includes copper carbonates, galena, sphalerite, pyrite, opal, and wulfenite.
Marysville
Piute County
Marysvale earns a top spot for small but well-formed crystals in rhyolite cavities, especially bixbyite, amethyst, and reported rutile or pseudobrookite.
Best counties for barite in Utah
Ranked by the number of mapped barite spots. County links open the full rockhounding page for that county.
Before you go
Read the barite identification guide so you know what a keeper looks like in the field: Barite in the encyclopedia.
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