Celestine

  
Origin: Enna Mines, Sicily, Italy
Sample size: 8.3 x 5.4 x 4.5 cm
 
  
Origin: Edward Kraemer & Sons Inc. Quarry (White Rock Quarry), Clay Center, Ottawa Co., Ohio, USA
Sample size: 8.3 x 6.5 x 5 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Dan Weinrich

Dealer in fine mineral specimens

 

  
Hundreds of clear or very faint blue prismatic or acicular crystals to 6mm averaging 3 mm. They are hard to see in the photo but they are gorgeous and are set off nicely in the yellow sulfur matrix.
Origin: Machow, Poland
Ex. Polak collection
Sample size: 6 x 5 x 3 cm
 
  
Origin: Meckley's quarry, Mandata, Northumberland Co., Pennsylvania, United States
Sample size: 8 x 4 x 5 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Tom Loomis

Dakota Matrix Minerals

 

Origin: Holloway Quarry, Newport, Michigan, U.S.A.
Sample size: 8 x 8 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Diederik Visser

Diederik Visser Minerals & Petrological Services

 

  
Origin: Rockwood Quarry, Wayne County, Michigan, U.S.A.
Sample size: 10.5 x 10 x 4.7 cm
 
  
  
  
Origin: Sakoany Mine, Majunga, Madagascar
Ex. Marty Lewadny collection
Sample size: 9.0 x 7.0 x 5.3 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone

 

  
Celestine on aragonite
Origin: Hamman Zriba, Tunisia, Africa
Ex. Marty Zinn collection
Sample size: 7.5 x 6.7 x 4.2 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

John Veevaert, Trinity Mineral Co

Trinityminerals.com

 

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