Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Celestine

Views:
Watches:
NST616126

Celestine

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Wöltjebuche Quarry, Springe, Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4 × 2.9 × 2.7 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.20cm
Description

Light blue celestine up to 1.2 cm with brown calcite inside a vuggy late jurassic carbonate concretion. Today the abandoned quarry is nature protection area. Rare material.

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...