Aerial Strontianite crystals on matrix, of a habit very unusual for the locality, with prismatic growths, some of them hopper-shaped, and with an intense and uniform yellow color, an equally unusual feature, surrounded by whitish Calcite crystals with creamy tones. A very different and elegant specimen, unlike the strontianites known from this locality.
The Laming Valley is located in the eastern sector of the Styrian Alps, a region dominated by Alpine metamorphic rocks (schists, gneisses and Triassic dolomites), affected by late Alpine fracturing. In old quarries and outcrops of the valley, small hydrothermal mineralizations and alteration processes develop that can produce mineral specimens of mineralogical interest, with Strontianite standing out, of worldwide fame, and, more rarely, well-crystallized Quartz.
Oberdorf an der Laming, Angerer adit, Laming Valley, Bruck an der Mur, Bruck-Mürzzuschlag District, Styria/Steiermark Austria
Specimen size: 6.4 × 5.4 × 4.5 cm = 2.52” × 2.13” × 1.77”
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