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Celestine With Native Sulphur

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Celestine With Native Sulphur

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Description
Locality: 
Muculufa Mine, Butera, Caltanissetta Province, Sicily, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
13.3 × 9.8 × 7.4 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.50cm
Weight: 
1 010.00gr
Description

Sculptural drusy featuring dozens of white, very lustrous celestite crystals with mostly transparent tips. Celestite composed divengert fans, often changing orientations. Associated, some thick dark yellow sulphur crystals contribute to an excellent color contrast.

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

 

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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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