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Selenite

Floater

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Description
Locality: 
Neuenhain, Neuental, Kassel, Hesse, Germany
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7.5 × 3 × 2 cm
Description

A double terminated, waterclear, lustrous floater of gypsum from a lignite deposit in tertiary clays and sandstones, worked from an open cut. Comes with a label dated back to Sept. 1977.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Selenite

Variety Of: 

Gypsum

Formula: 
CaSO4·2H2O
Strunz: 
7.CD.40
Hardness: 
2.0
Hardness: 
0.0