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Celestine

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Celestine

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Description
Locality: 
Ratum Quarry, Vosseveld, Winterswijk, Gelderland, Netherlands
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
9.8 × 4.7 × 5.6 cm
Weight: 
230.00gr
Description

A large specimen with a lot of celestine crystals together with minor calcite crystals. The celestine shows here colorless crystals to pinkish elongated crystals. The last one could be double terminated.

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...