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Gypsum

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Description
Locality: 
Mansfeld Basin, Saxony - Anhalt, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
10 × 8 × 7 cm
Largest Crystal: 
5.80cm
Description

This attractive specimen is typical for this historic lcation.

Large pale bronw, translucent gypsum crystals with good terminations on minor matrix.

Specimens from Mansfeld are very hard to get on the market. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Gypsum

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