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Carnallite

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Description
Locality: 
Kraja Shaft, Bleicherode, Nordhausen, Thuringia, Germany
Class: 
Single Crystal
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.5 × 2.1 × 2.1 cm
Largest Crystal: 
3.50cm
Description

This is a superb single crystal of rare carnallite. It is multifaced, sharp edged and transparent. The specimen comes from the oldtimed Kraja Shaft in Bleicherode which was abandoned in 1994 and it counts to best quality at all . This material is mostly impossible to purchase nowadays and most of the pices are destroyed. The specimen comes without a box and should be kept in an airtight box.

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
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