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Gypsum

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Locality: 
Quien Tal Pensara Mine, Pilar de Jaravia, Pulpí, Almería, Andalusia, Spain
Size Range: 
Museum (18cm plus)
Size: 
28 × 9 × 3 cm
Description

This is an enormous large and very good gypsum crystal from a very famous mine in Andalusia, Spain.

Found in the early 1990s - perfect terminated and covered by a thin crust of limonite is this specimen nowadays almost impossible to get - especially in that size.

Beautiful.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Gypsum

Formula: 
CaSO4·2H2O
Strunz: 
7.CD.40
Hardness: 
2.0
Streak: 
White.