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.8" Striated Glauberite Crystal - Consuelo Mine, Spain
This is a .8" long transparent glauberite crystal with striations, collected from the Consuelo Mine in the Community of Madrid, Spain. It comes with an acrylic display case and mineral tack.
About Glauberite
Glauberite is a brittle, light-colored sodium calcium sulfate mineral, often found in continental and marine evaporite deposits associated with halite, polyhalite, anhydrite, gypsum, thenardite, mirabilite, sassolite, and/or blodite. It may also form in hydrothermal deposits. It was first described in 1808 and named for the extracted Glauber's salts after the German alchemist Johann Rudolf Glauber. It is commercially mined for its sulfate contents.
General Chemical Formula - Na2Ca(SO4)2
Glauberite is a brittle, light-colored sodium calcium sulfate mineral, often found in continental and marine evaporite deposits associated with halite, polyhalite, anhydrite, gypsum, thenardite, mirabilite, sassolite, and/or blodite. It may also form in hydrothermal deposits. It was first described in 1808 and named for the extracted Glauber's salts after the German alchemist Johann Rudolf Glauber. It is commercially mined for its sulfate contents.
General Chemical Formula - Na2Ca(SO4)2
$25
SPECIES
Glauberite
LOCATION
Consuelo Mine, Chinchón, Community of Madrid, Spain
SIZE
.8" long
CATEGORY
ITEM
#317075
