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Gypsum & Halite

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Gypsum & Halite

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Locality: 
Bleicherode, Nordhausen, Thuringia, Germany
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.5 × 6.5 × 4 cm
Description

interesting specimen with a halite cube up to 3.5cm overgrown by small gypsum crystals on a gypsum twin crystal from a recent find at the former "Karl Liebknecht" shaft, very nice fluorescence under shortwave UV light

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Gypsum

Formula: 
CaSO4·2H2O
Strunz: 
7.CD.40
Hardness: 
2.0
Streak: 
White.

Halite

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

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