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Sylvite With Halite

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Sylvite With Halite

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Description
Locality: 
Niedersachsen Potash Works, Wathlingen, Celle, Lower Saxony, Germany
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Museum (18cm plus)
Size: 
22.5 × 9.5 × 9.5 cm
Weight: 
1 368.00gr
Description

Sylvinite (Sylvinite is a sedimentary rock made of a mechanical mixture of the minerals sylvite (KCl, or potassium chloride) and halite (NaCl, or sodium chloride).

Jar from old German collection.

a jar full of small rough crystals of rare silvinite

an interesting addition to the collection

Ex. H. Wunkhaus, acquired in 1988.

 

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

Halite

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

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