Cryptohalite

  
Origin: Schoeller mine, Kladno, Czech Republic
Sample size: 6 x 3 x 2 cm, crystals to 5 mm
 
 
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Tom Loomis

Dakota Matrix Minerals

 

White to colourless crystals of cryptohalite. The red colour is due to admixtured (amorphous ?) selenium
Origin: Kladno, Středočeský Kraj, Bohemia, Czech Republic
Picture size: 5 mm
Owner: Thomas Witzke
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Thomas Witzke

Institut für Mineralogie und Lagerstättenlehre
Aachen, Germany

 

Nice clear crystals with sulfur xls on matrix
Origin: Schöller Mine, Kladno, Czech Republic
Sample size: 3.5 x 5 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Diederik Visser

Diederik Visser Minerals & Petrological Services

 

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