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Gypsum

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Description
Locality: 
Ahmed Hamdi Tunnel, Suez Governorate, Egypt
Class: 
Single Crystal
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7 × 2 × 1 cm
Largest Crystal: 
7.00cm
Weight: 
22.00gr
Description

Very nice unusual  Gypsum crystal up to 70 mm,  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.