FLUORESCENT WOLLASTONITE BROKEN HILL
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Fluorescent Wollastonite Broken Hill Mineral Specimen. A different Fluorescent Specimen to add to your collection. This mineral is Short Wave UVC Fluorescent. From the Famous location of Broken Hill, where many exotic minerals come from. From Barry Braes Collection. Medium weight with good crystal coverage and stands well for winged display both front and back.
Location:
Broken Hill Area, .
Dismensions:
7.1cm x 4.6cm x 4.1cm, 169g.
Wollastonite
Calcium Silicate
CaSiO3.
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Fluorescent Wollastonite Broken Hill Mineral Specimen for sale. A different Fluorescent Specimen to add to your collection. This mineral is Short Wave UVC Fluorescent to show off the fluorescent Orange Colour. From the Famous location of Broken Hill Region, where many exotic minerals come from. From the Barry Braes Collection. Medium weight with good crystal coverage and stands well for winged display both front and back.
Location:
Broken Hill Area, .
Dismensions:
11cm x 7.5cm x 4.8cm, 391g.
Wollastonite
Calcium Silicate
CaSiO3.
Wollastonite is a common mineral in skarns or contact metamorphic rocks. Skarns can sometimes produce some wonderfully rare and exotic minerals with very unusual chemistries. Wollastonite has no unusual elements in its chemistry and it is somewhat common and not considered exotic among collectors. Wollastonite forms from the interaction of limestones, that contain calcite CaCO3 with silica SiO2 in hot magma. When hot magma intrudes limestones under volcanoes and then blown out of them. A few more words.
It is an important constituent in refractory ceramics such as refractory tile and as a filler for paints. Mineral specimens can be interesting with their fibrous habit, pearly luster and some specimens. Especially those from Franklin, New Jersey, will fluoresce. Named for the English chemist and mineralogist W. H. Wollaston.