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Sylvite On Gypsum With Halite

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Sylvite On Gypsum With Halite

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Description
Locality: 
Niedersachsen Potash Works, Wathlingen, Celle, Lower Saxony, Germany
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Museum (18cm plus)
Size: 
19.5 × 12 × 7 cm
Weight: 
770.00gr
Description

Exceptional yellow gold gemmy octahedron sylvine crystals cluster coating gold Gypsum crystals with Halite from old find in Wathlingen, Germany.

Unusual water clear crystals cluster covered plate all around.

Perfect lustrous crystals with great shape and nice clarity, specimen comes from old collection. Ex. H. Wunkhaus, acquired in 1988.

Exceptional quality specimen.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Sylvite

Formula: 
KCl
Strunz: 
3.AA.20
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
1.5 - 2.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Mt Vesuvius, Somma-Vesuvius Complex, Naples Province, Campania, Italy

Gypsum

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

Halite

Formula: 
NaCl
Strunz: 
3.AA.20
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
2.5
Streak: 
White
Piatek Minerals

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