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Alstonite

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Alstonite

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Description
Locality: 
Brownley Hill Mine, Nenthead, Cumbria, United Kingdom
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.2 × 4.2 × 3 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.20cm
Weight: 
86.00gr
Description

Alstonite is a very rare barium, calcium carbonate and this specimen is from the co-type locality. The vuggy specimen features many small sharp pseudo-hexagonal dipyramid crystals set on a baryte matrix.

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Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Alstonite

Formula: 
BaCa(CO3)2
Strunz: 
5.AB.35
Crystal System: 
Triclinic
Hardness: 
4.0 - 4.5
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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