About Strontianite
Strontium carbonate of the Aragonite group, found in various pale colors. It's a stone of emotional balance, inner strength, and stress reduction.
Primary Hues
Colorless, White, Grey, Yellowish, Greenish, Brownish, Reddish, often forms prismatic or acicular crystals, or fibrous/granular masses
Geological & Scientific Details
Strontianite is classified as a carbonate minerals mineral which typically crystallizes in the orthorhombic system. Its chemical formula is SrCO3. Common crystal habits include prismatic, acicular, pseudo hexagonal, columnar to fibrous, granular, massive.
Key Geological Properties:
- Mineral Category: Carbonate minerals
- Chemical Formula: SrCO3
- IMA Symbol: Str[1]
- Crystal System: Orthorhombic
- Formula Mass (g/mol): 147.63 g/mol
- Predominant Geological Color: Colourless, white, gray, light yellow, green or brown; colourless in transmitted light
- Crystal Habit: Prismatic, acicular, pseudo hexagonal, columnar to fibrous, granular, massive
- Twinning: Very common, usually contact, rarely penetration, also repeated
- Cleavage: {110} nearly perfect, {021} poor, {010} traces
- Streak: White
- Diaphaneity: Transparent to translucent