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Witherite

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Description
Locality: 
Cave In Rock District, Illinois, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.8 × 5 × 4.2 cm
Description

Witherite is a relatively rare barium carbonate mineral that shows a blue/white fluorescent response under short and long wave UV.  Come from the historical fluorspar (fluorite) mines of Cave-In-Rock, Hardin County, Illinois,  This specimen consists of a mass of large, twinned (pseudohexagonal) crystals of off-white witherite on a minimal matrixl. The witherite shows a similar fluorescent response under all UV wavelengths-  glowing blue/white, slightly warmer under long wave. Ex col. Joan Abella i Creus. will be sent with original label.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Witherite

Formula: 
BaCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.15
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
3.0 - 3.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Brownley Hill Mine (Bloomsberry Horse Level), Nenthead, Alston Moor District, North Pennines, North and Western Region (Cumberland), Cumbria, England, UK

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