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Celestine

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Description
Locality: 
Großreifling, Landl, Liezen District, Styria, Austria
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.8 × 6.4 × 3 cm
Description

These transparent, light blue celestine crystals come from Austria's best alpine source for celestine. Some of the crystals are doubly terminated and grown on a dark brown-gray matrix. The finder of this find is Gerhard Aschacher - a well-known Styrian collector. A rarity from the alpine region!

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Celestine

Formula: 
SrSO4
Strunz: 
7.AD.35
Hardness: 
3.0 - 3.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
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