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Celestine-Baritine stalagmite specimen from Neuquen Province, Argentina.

Very rare Celestine-Baritine stalagmite formation that defied physic laws.
Only two places in the world the specimen formation is found : Argentina and Greenland

The specimen was found in Cecila Mine, Cerro Rayoso site, Department of Loncopue, Neuquen Province, Argentina.

Dimensions: 13" x 4" X 3 1/2"
We have considered celestite as tied to direct dissolution of former bedded and nodular calcium suphates, typically with nodular and enterolithic textures that indicate the evaporate association. But there are also laterally extensive stratiform and layered Celestine deposits that are sufficiently rich in strontium to be mineable and hosted in epeiric carbonates.

De Brodtkorb et al. (1982) describeb such an economic Celestite-baryte deposit in Early Cretaceous strata from the extra-Andean region of Neuquen, west central Argentina.

The ores are located in the sub-Andean Mesozoic belt.

Data confirm an evaporitic origin for the Celestite.

The largest deposits, as in South America and Greenland, tend to occur as epigenetic replacements in carbonate and evaporate hosts within epeiric platforms that range in age from Silurian to early Pliocene.

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