Celestine
Mineral Group: SULFATES
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Celestite & Celestine
- Celestine has
been called celestite in the past.
- Celestine is
actually colorless but has a range of colors due to impurities.
- It is often named by its color, such as
orange celestine or
blue celestine.
- This is a heavy, pale
blue massive specimen of celestine with a visible cleavage plane.
- Although celestine is often transparent & blue, it
does also evolve into white vitreous masses that are a pale purple along
the contact zone with the host rocks.
- white streak
- heavy
- mainly translucent
- shiny (vitreous) to pearly luster
- Celestine is a heavy mineral that
produces many beautiful crystals appreciated by mineral collectors.
- Celestine is used to produce color in fireworks.
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Celestine from
Lafarge Quarry, Dundas, Ontario CANADA
- Blades of translucent, clear to
milky, blue celestine are common
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Orange Celestine
- This orange celestine specimen
shows with some cleavage planes.
- The celestine is in a
vug
in a gray matrix rock.
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Orange Celestine from
Hilltop Quarry, Georgetown, Ontario CANADA
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Blue Celestite from
Sora Limestone Quarry, Rockwood, Michigan USA |
SPECIMEN LOCATION: Royal Ontario
Museum, Ontario,
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