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Celestine & Sulphur

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Celestine & Sulphur

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Description
Locality: 
Machów Mine, Tarnobrzeg City County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, Poland
Class: 
Combination
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
10.9 × 7 × 6.4 cm
Description

A superb specimen from this classic locality. Numerous free-standing crystals of celestine resting on sulfur matrix. The celestine crystals show exceptional quality, they are all razor-sharp terminated, highly lustrous and flawless like glass. All of them are in excellend condition demadgewise (except along the egdes of the specimen). All crystals are even endpointed. The specimen was in de collection of Rene Tribl, a very prominent collector in Austria, who was specialized in minerals of East Europe and Russia; he was author of the extraissue of Lapis Magazin about Russia. The specimen will come with two historic labels.

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...

Sulphur

Formula: 
S8
Strunz: 
1.CC.05
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
1.5 - 2.5