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Gypsum On Calcite

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Gypsum On Calcite

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Description
Locality: 
Porgera Mine, Mount Kare Valley, Enga Province, Papua New Guinea
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.7 × 4.3 × 2.6 cm
Largest Crystal: 
4.00cm
Description

A fine doubly terminated gypsum crystal on a cluster of greenish white calcite scalahedrons. The 4.0 cm gypum crystal is splayed at one termination, this occured insitu and was collected in the 1990's from the Porgera Gold Mine in the remote New Guinea Highlands

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Gypsum

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

Calcite

Polymorph of: 
Formula: 
CaCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.0
Streak: 
White
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