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Ettringite

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Ettringite

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Description
Locality: 
NChwaning I Mine, Kuruman, Kalahari, Northern Cape Province, South Africa
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4.2 × 2.4 × 2 cm
Description

This awesome color is the most wanted but also rarest you can find! It reminds more of sulphur crystals.

The aestethic of this specimen is incredible. Perfectly balanced single crystal sitting on dark matrix.

It is getting more and more impossible to find quality like this on the maket!

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Ettringite

Formula: 
Ca6Al2(SO4)3(OH)12·26H2O
Strunz: 
7.DG.15
Hardness: 
2.0 - 2.5
Type Locality: 
Ettringer Feld, Western lava flow, Bellerberg volcano, Ettringen, Mayen, Eifel, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany