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Celestine With Native Sulphur

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Celestine With Native Sulphur

Former collection Weber (CH) & Christian Mavris
Classic Locality

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Description
Locality: 
Floristella Mine, Enna, Enna Province, Sicily, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7.7 × 5.4 × 3 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.40cm
Weight: 
102.00gr
Description

Sculptural drusy featuring dozens of white, very lustrous celestite crystals with mostly transparent tips. Celestite composed divengert fans, often changing orientations.
This matrix specimen is very solid, composed of sulphur-lined evaporite, and the drusy itself comes with only some peripheral contacts here and there, mostly visible upon close inspection. Some dark soot, given the age.
The specimen was wrapped into paper for quite some time, and I have decided not to clean it or prep it to preserve the 'touch of time'.

The specimen is sizeable and rich, with good esthetic, ready to be displayed.  

It comes with the original labels from the Weber collection (pre-1950s).

Previous labels supplied (not photographed)
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

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Italy (Pacco Celere 3)
10
Europe/Mediterranean Basin (Tracked; Zone 1)
15
Americas, Asia, Africa (Tracked; Zone 2)
20
Australia & Oceania (Tracked; Zone 3)
25

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