• Celestine has been called celestite in the past.
• Celestine is actually colorless but has a range of colors due to impurities.
• because the mineral occasionally comes in a pale blue, it was called celestine - from "celestial" to reflect the colour of the sky
• It is often named by its color, such as orange celestine or blue celestine.
• 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.
• Celestine is a source of the element strontium

• Blades of translucent, clear to milky, blue  celestine are common
• Although celestine from this quarry 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.

• This orange celestine specimen shows with some cleavage planes.
• The celestine is in a vug in a gray matrix rock.

Blue Celestine Geode
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