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Sylvite

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Sylvite

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Description
Locality: 
Cardona, Bages, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.1 × 5.5 × 1.8 cm
Description

Aggregate of interpenetrated orange crystals of sylvite, from the Cardona Mines. A classic of the Spanish Mineralogy. From my own collection, I obtained it in 1991.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Sylvite

Formula: 
KCl
Strunz: 
3.AA.20
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
1.5 - 2.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Mt Vesuvius, Somma-Vesuvius Complex, Naples Province, Campania, Italy

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