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Halite

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Halite

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Description
Locality: 
Stassfurt, Saxony - Anhalt, Germany
Class: 
Single Crystal
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7.2 × 3.6 × 3 cm
Description

A wonderful, complete crystal from this most important locality for halite in Germany. The faces are glossy, the crystal is colorless and of high clarity with sharp, intense blue zoning. This sharp zonings are most special, usually you can see blue spots inside the crystals, but not sharp zoning like this. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Halite

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