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Gypsum

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Description
Locality: 
Port Said, Port Fouad City, Port Said Governorate, Egypt
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
10.5 × 8 × 4.5 cm
Weight: 
268.00gr
Description

Unusual cluster of desert rose, with crystals up to 25 mm side, found in the Pliocene sediments excavated in the execution of an underpass of the Suez Canal in the 1990s.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Gypsum

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