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AUSSIE GYPSUM

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AUSSIE GYPSUM

A beautiful Aussie Gypsum specimen with cool little treelike growths.  It looks like an orange forest from above!  This piece has three different looking types of crystals on it, underneath is the more familiar crystals.  Also known as Selenite, which is a type of gypsum.  A great piece for the cabinet.

Location:
Mt Gunson Mine, Woomera, SA

Dimensions:
9cm x 7cm x 2cm, 79g

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AUSSIE GYPSUM
AUSSIE GYPSUM

A beautiful Aussie Gypsum specimen with cool little treelike growths.  It looks like an orange forest from above!  This piece has three different looking types of crystals on it, underneath is the more familiar crystals.  Also known as Selenite, which is a type of gypsum.  A great piece for the cabinet.

Location:
Mt Gunson Mine, Woomera, SA

Dimensions:
9cm x 7cm x 2cm, 79g

Gypsum: CaSO4 · 2H2O
The most common sulphate mineral.
Found as both massive material, including the alabaster variety; and clear crystals, the selenite variety; and, parallel fibrous, the satin spar variety. Typically colourless to white, transparent crystals, thick tabular to lenticular, sometimes prismatic.
The name ‘selenite’ is mostly synonymous with gypsum but has been used historically to describe the transparent variety, as opposed to satin spar gypsum for the fibrous variety and alabaster for the fine-grained massive form.
The original name was given by J.G. Wallerius in his 1747 book “Mineralogia, eller Mineralriket” (p.50), as ‘selenites’. Named from the greek “the moon”, probably from its pale bluish reflections.

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