Celestite
UNB-2017-0004Minerals » Sulphates
Description
Sample of Celestite with slight bluish tint that has a vitreous lustre. Crystals are cleavage masses and thick subhedral tabular crystals.
Celestite (SrSO4) can be white, bluish, reddish or colourless and has a vitreous or pearly lustre. Streak is white and hardness is 3 to 3 1/2. Cleavage is perfect in one direction, good in a second direction and distinct in the third. Celestite can be thin or thick tabular crystals but also fibrous, cleavage masses, nodular rarely granular or lamellar.
Specifications
| Object name | Celestite |
|---|---|
| ID | UNB-2017-0004 |
| Legal status | Permanent collection |
| Category | Mineral |
| Classification | Mineral group: Sulphates |
| Origin | Thorold, Ontario, Canada |
| Pieces | 1 |
| Partial | No |
| Measurements |
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Map of Origin
Publications
- Chesterman, C.W. 1979. Audubon Society, Field Guide to North American Rocks and Minerals. Knopf.