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Celestine

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Description
Locality: 
Railway Tunnel Site, Jühnde, Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.8 × 3.9 × 0.8 cm
Description

Fibrous blue celestine crystals formed by filling cracks in the carbonate rock. Specimen was found by Rolf Champignon (from Göttingen) in the early 1980’s during the construction of a railway tunnel near Jühnde.

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...

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