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Carnallite & Halite

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Carnallite & Halite

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Description
Locality: 
Kraja Shaft, Bleicherode, Nordhausen, Thuringia, Germany
Class: 
Single Crystal
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.5 × 2.5 × 2.5 cm
Description

 A translucent perfect prismatic crystal of carnallite with some small halite crystals beside. One of the rare well crystallized carnallite crystals at all. The material is hygroscopic and must be stored in an airtight plastic box.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Carnallite

Formula: 
KMgCl3·6H2O
Strunz: 
3.BA.10
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
2.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Stassfurt, Stassfurt Potash deposit, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Halite

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

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Marco Drechsel

SPK Mittelsachsen

SWIFT/BIC-Code: WELADED1FGX

IBAN: DE49 870520004111076110