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Celestine & Sulphur

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Celestine & Sulphur

Ex University of Amsterdam
With Antique Label

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Description
Locality: 
Agrigento, Agrigento Province, Sicily, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7 × 4 × 2.6 cm
Description

This item has two pieces, 7 x 4 cm and 6 x 4.5 cm large, with good coverage of colourless celestine crystals and bright yellow sulphur crystals on matrix.

Collected in the early 1950's by Dutch geologists. Ex Geological Institute of the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Collected: 
1950's
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...

Sulphur

Formula: 
S8
Strunz: 
1.CC.05
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
1.5 - 2.5
Provenance
Cartils Minerals

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