pink and white stripe, with some pearly vitreous luster, hardness is 3.5 to 4 on the Mohs scale. Its density ranges from 2.86 to 3.10.
crystallizes in the hexagonal system, usually in rhombohedrons.
is also used as a flux in metallurgy, manufacture of ceramics, paintings and white fillers and as a component to manufacture glass.
Donated by our friend from Spain to Mineraland, from Cantabria where there are mines where dolomite extracted some of them are, in Cabezón de la Sal, Aliva and accompanying the Reocín and Peñacastillo hemimorphite
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