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Halite

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Description
Locality: 
Merkers, Krayenberggemeinde, Wartburg, Thuringia, Germany
Class: 
Single Crystal
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
2.25 × 3.36 × 0.92 cm
Weight: 
10.00gr
Description

Unusual violet and blue colouring in a colourless Halite crystal. The cause of the colour is still unclear.  One theory is crystallographic defects, another , radiation from potassium-40 and a third , colloidal gold.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Halite

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

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