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Celestine

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Description
Locality: 
Hammam-Zriba Mine, Zriba-Village, Zaghouan Governorate, Tunisia
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
14.5 × 12.5 × 6.5 cm
Weight: 
1 654.00gr
Description

Celestine with white crystals and beige-orange tops. Countless blades and matrix formed like a hedgehog.

Not only that this Material is very beautiful it also has a quite interesting background story. Apparently it was misidentified as baryte for many years. On mindat you can read the following quoted article about it:

'Many of the well-crystallized "Barite" specimens from Hammam-Zriba Mine, marketed from 1998 onwards, are actually Celestine, as proven by several EDS analyses and density measurements, by Dr. Bob Housley and John Attard, among others.'

Attention: oversee customers please have a look on parcel fees, since weight is above one kilogram

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Celestine

Formula: 
SrSO4
Strunz: 
7.AD.35
Hardness: 
3.0 - 3.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Bell's Mill, Bellwood, Blair Co., Pennsylvania, USA...

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