Gypsum

  
 
Origin: Las Salinas Halite mine, near Otume Village, south of Pisco, Peru
Sample size: 13 x 7.5 x 10 cm (top/2nd row), 4 x 1.5 x 5 cm (bottom)
 
  
Origin: Red River Floodway, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Sample size: 8.5 x 7.5 x 5.5 cm
 
  
Origin: near Fuentes de Ebro, Zaragoza, Spain
Sample size: 3.5 x 2.7 x 2 cm
 
  
Origin: St. Alvienne, 10 miles north of Paris, France
Sample size: 7.5 x 4.5 x 3.5 cm
 
  
Origin: Sunshine No. 1 Adit, Blanchard Mine, Bingham, Hansonburg District, Socorro Co., New Mexico, U.S.A.
Sample size: 5 x 4.5 x 9 cm
 
  
Origin: Naica, Chihuahua, Mexico
Ex. Don Belsher collection
Sample size: 6.8 cm wide
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Dan Weinrich

Dealer in fine mineral specimens

 

  
Specimen with SEVEN beautiful transparent to translucent and lustrous fish-tail twinned pale amber selenite crystals to 4.5 x 3.5 cm on a ball of smaller selenite crystals.
  
Origin: Red River Floodway, nr. Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Sample size: 12.0 x 10.0 x 6.8 cm (top/2nd row), 4.9 x 4.3 x 3.5 cm (3rd/bottom row)
 
  
  
Selenite on calcite
Origin: Naica, Chihuahua, Mexico
Ex. Gary Hansen collection
Sample size: 15.5 x 10.0 x 9.5 cm
 
Origin: Emergency Spillway Cut, near Winnepeg, Manitoba, Canada
Sample size: 7.2 x 5.5 x 5 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone

 

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