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Carnallite

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Description
Locality: 
Beienrode, Königslutter am Elm, Helmstedt, Lower Saxony, Germany
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.5 × 3.8 × 3.2 cm
Description

A very good translucent, yellow carnallite crystal from an abandoned salt mine in Germany.

Ex Alex Franz collection.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Carnallite

Formula: 
KMgCl3·6H2O
Strunz: 
3.BA.10
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
2.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Stassfurt, Stassfurt Potash deposit, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany