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Celestine Siderite & Baryte

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Celestine Siderite & Baryte

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Description
Locality: 
Quien Tal Pensara Mine, Pilar de Jaravia, Pulpí, Almería, Andalusia, Spain
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.7 × 3.5 × 2.2 cm
Description

Enhaced bundle growths, very delicate and aesthetical, of very thin acicular celestine crystals, snowy white, contrasting with the brown rhombohedral siderite crystals and the colorless barites.

Excellent specimen from here!

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...

Siderite

Formula: 
FeCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.5
Streak: 
White

Baryte

Formula: 
BaSO4
Strunz: 
7.AD.35
Hardness: 
3.0 - 3.5
Streak: 
White
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