Yate, South Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, England, UKCelestine. Specimen is from the collection of the Smithsonian Institute, Museum of Natural History #82342. Scale at bottom of image is an inch with a rule at one cm.
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Yate, South Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, England, UKDimensions: 6 cm x 5.1 cm x 0.7 cm
6.0 x 5.1 x 0.7 cm Ex. H. Westenberger
This is an incredibly nice Celestine specimen composed of multiple parallel crystals with beveled edges from a classic location. The specimen is water clear with no damage other than the edge of attachment and internal fractures. It comes from a location once famous for Celestine production for strontium. Celestine was mined from as early as 1820 until April 1991 with the heaviest production in the late 1800s. At one time, 90% of the world's Celestine was mined at Yate (see
http://www.yateheritage.co.uk/history-of-yate/beneath-our-feet.htm). When exactly this specimen was mined is unknown. The label from the Westenberger collection lists a year of 1964. Whether this is when the mineral was mined or purchased is unknown. Both sides of the specimen are depicted in the following photos.
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Yate, South Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, England, UKDimensions: 11 cm x 6.5 cm x 5 cm
11 x 6.5 x 5 cm Golden Celestine crystals from a classic location. The golden color is likely due to a coating of Hematite. There are also small dark red/brown speckles which also appears to be Hematite.
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Yate Quarry, Yate, South Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, England, UKDimensions: 5 cm x 4.4 cm x 1 cm
5.0 x 4.4 x 1.0 cm. Water-clear, tabular celestine crystals of this quality are rare and very seldom available from the classic and long-extinct Yate Quarry of England. This very fine, two-sided, glassy, sharp crystal is very slightly tapered and the beveled termination has an interesting dusting of the hematite. Old-time material from this historic locale from the Robert Sullivan Collection.
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Yate Quarry, Yate, South Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, England, UKDimensions: 11.7 cm x 8.2 cm x 6 cm
This is a cabinet-sized specimen of celestine from the Yate Quarry, Yate, South Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom. This specimen is in the Hillman Hall of Minerals and Gems at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (CM11275). This specimen was in the former collection of William W. Jefferis.
This specimen is in a case featuring minerals from “The Tin Isles” (England). Several of these specimens were in the collection of William W. Jefferis.
Carnegie Museum of Natural History specimen and Jamison K. Brizendine photo
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Yate Quarry, Yate, South Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, England, UKDimensions: 7.4 cm x 7.8 cm x 5.8 cm
Interesting old and very well-preserved piece of Celestine from Bristol area. Dozens of lustrous white translucent, sometimes also transparent, Celestine crystals are covering the matrix rock.
(Intéressante pièce ancienne bien préservée de Célestine de la région de Bristol avec des dizaines de cristaux blancs translucides)
Ex State Mineraldealership Freiberg Saxony
Ex Wittig Minerals
The "Blue John" Mineral Collection - B52 (acquired 4 December 2014)
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