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Celestine & Calcite

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Description
Locality: 
Kuhlenberg Quarry, Silbach, Winterberg, Arnsberg, North Rhine - Westphalia, Germany
Size Range: 
Museum (18cm plus)
Size: 
23.3 × 10 × 7 cm
Description

Blue celestine like this here is extremely rare in Germany and sought after. This very large specimen shows several vugs with very nice ice-blue celestine crystals between creamy-white calcite scalenohedrons on an antigorite- and anthophyllite-bearing matrix. Could be trimmed down a bit with care.

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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