Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Sulphur In Gypsum

Views:
Watches:
PDM789680

Sulphur In Gypsum

Classic Locality

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Weenzen Gypsum Pit, Salzhemmendorf, Lower Saxony, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5 × 4.2 × 2.3 cm
Description

Yellow masses of native sulphur in a white sugary mass of gypsum matrix. Specimen #4 of an old German collection built previous to the Second World War. Includes two old labels.

Ex. Jean De Marche.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Sulphur

Formula: 
S8
Strunz: 
1.CC.05
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
1.5 - 2.5

Gypsum

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

Seller Information

Payment options: offline, paypal_wpp, paypal_wps