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Carnallite

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Description
Locality: 
Asse II Mine, Wittmar, Wolfenbüttel, Lower Saxony, Germany
Class: 
Single Crystal
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.3 × 1.8 × 1.8 cm
Description

A perfectly symmetric carnallite crystal in a glass dewar with an old label.

This is a rather large and well developed single crystal for this species.

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