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Anhydrite

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Description
Locality: 
Naica, Saucillo Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
10.9 × 9.8 × 2.7 cm
Description

Group of light blue coloured anhydrite crystals with a characteristic pearly lustre and fan-shape. The anhydrite blades are completely terminated and reach up to 9.6 cm. The top and rear sides are coated by hundreds of spiky transparent microcrystals of calcite on microcrystals of pyrite. The general condition is very good.

Ex. Bob Janssens specimen #592, who bougth it in 1982.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Anhydrite

Formula: 
CaSO4
Strunz: 
7.AD.30
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
3.0 - 3.5
Type Locality: 
Salt mine, Hall valley, Hall, Innsbruck, Inn valley, North Tyrol, Tyrol, Austria

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