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Witherite

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Description
Locality: 
Alston Moor, Cumbria, United Kingdom
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4.4 × 4.1 × 2.8 cm
Weight: 
72.00gr
Description

Aggregate of white and pale cream witherite crystals with some cavities where free standing crystals are well developed. Whitish blue fluorescent under UV illumination.

Acquired in 1996. Ex Bob Janssens #F7.

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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