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Gypsum

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Gypsum

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Description
Locality: 
Ebensee, Gmunden District, Upper Austria, Austria
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
11 × 7 × 5 cm
Description

This specimen is from a twenty years old find. The crystals were grown in old sole-chambers in the salt – deposit near Ebensee. There was a high risk that these old chambers get collapsed and so the salt-company decided to blast them. Before two collectors had the opportunity to enter the mine and safe some material. Ex Martin Gruell Coll.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Gypsum

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

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