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Strontianite

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Gorgeous composite Strontianite crystals to 6 cm wide form curved flattened sprays with pale tangerine bodies grading to translucent creamy-white terminations. Composed entirely of the strontium carbonate, Strontianite, the broad crystals have a glassy to waxy lustre and are from Oberdorf an der Laming, in the Laming valley, Styria, Austria, a historic locality, roughly 170 km south-east of Salzburg. The Strontianite occurs as upturned saucer-shaped composite crystals, convex across the prism faces and curving downwards towards either side across their apex. This is a superb Strontianite from Styria and is quite remarkable for the species.

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Species
StrontianiteAbout Strontianite →
SizeCabinet
Dimensions6.2 x 10.3 x 4.3 cm
Listed on10/24/2024
Locality
Austria, Styria, OberdorfRegional guide →
SKUCC10233

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Mineral guide
Learn about Strontianite
radiating sprays and translucent prisms; a rare connoisseur carbonate with localities Strontian, Oberdorf, Elmwood and strong collecting value.
Strontianite
Regional guide
Strontianite from Oberdorf, Austria
Oberdorf is one of the great European names for strontianite, not because it yielded huge quantities of the species, but because it yielded the kind of crystals that serious collectors remember: lustrous, translucent to gemmy prisms, often appearing pseudo-hexagonal, standing out on white to pale buff carbonate matrix. Fine pieces have a restrained Alpine elegance—creamy, honey-tinted, or nearly colorless crystals on sugary dolomite, calcite, or magnesite rather than the showier fluorite-and-barite associations of some other strontianite localities.