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Gypsum

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Description
Locality: 
Ahmed Hamdi Tunnel, Suez Governorate, Egypt
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
2 × 4.5 × 3.5 cm
Largest Crystal: 
3.50cm
Weight: 
15.00gr
Description

Very nice unusual cluster of Gypsum desert rose, with crystals up to 35 mm side,  found in the Pliocene sediments excavated in the execution of an underpass of the Suez Canal in the 1981 (Ahmed Hamdi Tunnel)

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Gypsum

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