Strontianite on Celestine (RARE combo) Ross Lillie Coll.

Sub-Rosiclare Level, Minverva No. 1 Mine, Hardin County, Illinois
Small Cabinet, 7.9 x 6.8 x 6.1 cm
Start Time: 03/02/2017 6:30:00 pm (CST)
End Time: 03/09/2017 6:34:47 pm (CST)
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A VERY RARE (Ross Lillie's note) combination specimen from the famous Minerva Mine. Glassy, translucent clusters of gray-white strontianite crystals, to 2.3 cm, are jauntily set and scattered on the mounded matrix of snow-white celestine lathes. Minerva Mine strontianites are usually associated with fluorite, barite or calcite. The strontianite fluoresces bright white! Ex Ross Lillie Collection # 0762 and recovered in advance mining in November, 1994 from the northeast face.

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