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Celestine & Sulphur

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Description
Locality: 
Agrigento, Agrigento Province, Sicily, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
9 × 8.5 × 6.2 cm
Description

Prismatic crystals of lustrous colorless to white celestine up to 25 mm long with partial coating of yellow sulfur microcrystals on the prism faces of the celestine. The celestine fluoresces white at the top and pink at the base under UV illumination. After switching off the UV illumination, the piece glows for a relatively long time! This piece comes from an old collection and was acquired in 1968. The old collection label is included.

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

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Shipping Information

Postage Area Price
Austria
6
EU
18
Rest of Europe
20
USA, Canada, Japan, 1 kg
26
Australia, New Zealand, 1 kg
32