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Celestine

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Celestine

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Description
Locality: 
Jochenberg Quarry, Bad Kösen, Naumburg, Saxony - Anhalt, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.4 × 4 × 2.7 cm
Largest Crystal: 
2.30cm
Description

Sharp reddish-grey celestine crystal of 23 mm across in a vug of the limestone matrix.

Beautiful old specimen from Wolfgang Schneider collection.

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...