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Silver Calcite & Celestine

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Silver Calcite & Celestine

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Description
Locality: 
White Pine Mine, White Pine, Ontonagon County, Michigan, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.9 × 2.9 × 1.2 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small miniature sample with nice native silver crystals growing from calcite crystal matrix with prismatic crystals of what appear to be celestite. Classic locality!

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Silver

Formula: 
Ag
Strunz: 
1.AA.05
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0

Calcite

Polymorph of: 
Formula: 
CaCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.0
Streak: 
White

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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