Gypsum

  

Origin: Swan Hill, Victoria, Australia

Ex Tom Dwyer Collection

Sample size: 10 x 8 x 7.5 cm

 

  

  

Origin: Red River floodway, near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Ex. Tom Dwyer coll.

Sample size: 11 x 6 x 12 cm

 

Neat curled terminated stalactite of translucent colourless gypsum

Origin: El Potosi mine, Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico

Sample size: 15 mm in height

 

Origin: Vista Ridge, Montrose Co., Colorado, U.S.A.

Sample size: 5.5 x 5 x 0.5 cm

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

Gypsum with halite

Origin: Las Salinas Halite mine, near Otume Village, south of Pisco, Ica Department, Peru

Sample size: 8.5 x 4.5 x 7 cm (top), 6.5 x 4 x 3 cm (2nd row), 9.5 x 6 x 6 cm (3rd row), 14.5 x 7 x 11 cm (bottom)

 

Origin: Naica, Chihuahua, Mexico

Sample size: 3.5 x 2.5 x 2.5 cm

 

  

Single transparent doubly terminated "hour glass selenite" crystal

Origin: Jet, Oklahoma, U.S.A.

Sample size: 6.7 cm in length (left), 6.7 cm in length (right)

 

  

Origin: Kadamshchai, Kirgizia

Sample size: 3.5 x 0.9 x 6 cm

 

Origin: Penfield quarry, Monroe Co., New York, U.S.A.

Sample size: 9.5 x 5 x 6 cm

 

Dan Weinrich

Dealer in fine mineral specimens
 

  

 

  

  

Gypsum on a matrix with halite

Origin: Las Salinas Mine, Peru

Ex. Mike Keim collection

Sample size: 8.5 x 6 x 6 cm (top/2nd row), 10 x 9 x 6 cm (3rd/bottom row)

 

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