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Tachyhydrite

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Description
Locality: 
Stassfurt, Saxony - Anhalt, Germany
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.3 × 0.3 × 0.3 cm
Description

Outstanding white crystal group of the very rare Ca-Mg chloride mineral tachyhydrite from the TL in Germany

Ex Vandenbroucke Museum collection from Waregem, Belgium.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Tachyhydrite

Formula: 
CaMg2Cl6·12H2O
Strunz: 
3.BB.35
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
2.0
Type Locality: 
Stassfurt, Stassfurt Potash deposit, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

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