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Alstonite

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Alstonite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Burgstaller Höhe, Arzberg, Weiz District, Styria, Austria
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.5 × 1.2 × 1.1 cm
Description

Alstonite is an uncommon Ba-Ca-carbonate mineral, forms tiny but good colourless to white striated crystals and white veinlets with brown sphalerite.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Alstonite

Formula: 
BaCa(CO3)2
Strunz: 
5.AB.35
Crystal System: 
Triclinic
Hardness: 
4.0 - 4.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Brownley Hill Mine (Bloomsberry Horse Level), Nenthead, Alston Moor District, North Pennines, North and Western Region (Cumberland), Cumbria, England, UK
Loranth Minerals

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