Celestine

  
Origin: Sakoany Mine, Majunga, Madagascar
Sample size: 9 x 8 x 7 cm
 
  
Origin: Sakoany Mine, Mahajanga Province, Madagascar
Sample size: 20 x 17 x 9 cm
 
  
Origin: Bull Creek, near Austin, Travis Co, Texas, U.S.A.
Sample size: 3.5 x 2 x 1 cm
 
  
 
Origin: Stoneco Quarry, Portage, Ohio, U.S.A.
Sample size: 9 x 5.5 x 2 cm (top), 8 x 3 x 1 cm (bottom)
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone

 

  
Origin: France Stone Co. Custar quarry, 4 miles NW of Custar, Wood Co., Ohio, U.S.A.
Sample size: 5 x 5.5 x 2.5 cm
 
  
Origin: Annabel Lee mine, Harris Creek Sub-District, Illinois - Kentucky Fluorspar District, Hardin Co., Illinois, U.S.A.
Sample size: 4.5 x 2.4 x 1.7 cm
 
  
Doubly terminated transparent pale bluish gray celestite crystal. Small calcites are in association.
Origin: Stoneco Portage Quarry (Maumee Stone Co. quarry), Portage, Wood Co., Ohio, U.S.A.
Sample size: 2 x 0.6 x 5 cm
 
Origin: Maybee, Michigan, U.S.A.
Sample size: 3.8 cm wide
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Dan Weinrich

Dealer in fine mineral specimens

 

  
  
This is a very rare specimen of celestite pseudomorphing barite. It also has sprays of strontianite crystals on the backside and matrix predominantly comprised of fluorite.
Origin: Annabel Lee Mine, Hardin Co., Illinois, United States
Sample size: 5 x 4.7 x 4 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

John Veevaert, Trinity Mineral Co

Trinityminerals.com

 

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