Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Picromerite

Views:
Watches:
DPH780720

Picromerite

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Hattorf Potash Works, Phillippsthal, Hersfeld-Rotenburg, Kassel Region, Hesse, Germany
Class: 
Single Crystal
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3 × 2 × 1.5 cm
Description

A 2 cm sharp crystal of picromerite, a rare KMg-sulfate, found 1980.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Picromerite

Formula: 
K2Mg(SO4)2·6H2O
Strunz: 
7.CC.60
Hardness: 
2.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Mt Vesuvius, Somma-Vesuvius Complex, Naples Province, Campania, Italy

Seller Information

Payment options: offline, paypal_wpp, paypal_wps