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Anhydrite

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Description
Locality: 
Stassfurt, Saxony - Anhalt, Germany
Class: 
Single Crystal
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.1 × 0.8 × 0.8 cm
Description

Exceptional single crystal of anhydrite from Germany. The specimen is developed as a floater with lustrous faces all around and a fantastic clearence. Stored and mounted is the crystal super cute in a glass vial on top of a nail which is poked through a corc. Included is also the old handwritten label of the specimen.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Anhydrite

Formula: 
CaSO4
Strunz: 
7.AD.30
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
3.0 - 3.5
Type Locality: 
Salt mine, Hall valley, Hall, Innsbruck, Inn valley, North Tyrol, Tyrol, Austria