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Selenite

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Selenite

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Description
Locality: 
Ebensee, Gmunden District, Upper Austria, Austria
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Museum (18cm plus)
Size: 
19.4 × 17.3 × 5.5 cm
Description

The discovery was in 1989, I met the discoverers on a local show when I was 16 years old and they invited me to dig there. The selenites grow in sole-chambers of the salt mine in Ebensee. The mining company planned to blast the old chambers, because these chambers were old, flooded with water and in danger to collaps. After they pump out the water there was this discovery of selenite, but the collectors had only a few days to safe them, before chambers were blasted. For a short while there was lot of selenite on local shows, but now it is years ago that I saw the last one from the discovery. This particular specimen is really impressive, the overall size, the large twinned crystals (sharp terminated and glossy), three generations, the tridimensional assemble - all these indicators help to give a great visual impact to the piece. No significant damages to report

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Selenite

Variety Of: 

Gypsum

Formula: 
CaSO4·2H2O
Strunz: 
7.CD.40
Hardness: 
2.0
Hardness: 
0.0