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Celestine With Calcite & Zeolite Group

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Celestine With Calcite & Zeolite Group

Ex Dr. Krantz, Bonn, Germany, Ex A. Pelloux
With Antique Label

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Description
Locality: 
Montecchio Maggiore, Vicenza Province, Veneto, Italy
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
8 × 10 × 4.5 cm
Weight: 
230.00gr
Description

Piece of porous volcanic rock featuring numerous geodes, partly empty, partly filled with crystalline blue celestite, calcite and unidentified zeolite group minerals (chabazite, natrolite, phillipsite...)

Comes with rare antique Alberto Pelloux (1868-1948) label. He was born in Crema, Italy, the son of the Italian Prime Minister Luigi Pelloux. He served as Professor of Mineralogy and Petrology at the University of Genoa, and was Director of the Mineralogy and Geology Department of the Giacomo Doria Museum of Natural History. He published a number of mineralogical works, receiving his degree from the University of Pisa. His scientific activity dealt especially with the systematic mineralogy of Italy, and also with applied mineralogy.

 

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...

Calcite

Polymorph of: 
Formula: 
CaCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.0
Streak: 
White

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