gypsum

TSNB449

Specimen

Exhibit 1. Gypsum; 55 mm.
Exhibit 1. Gypsum; 55 mm.
Image Credit: Malcolm Southwood

Title

gypsum

Principal Mineral

Gypsum

Size

Cabinet; 65mm

Collection

MGMH 2022.4.2687L

Provenance

New, D.; Feinglos, M.N.

Entry Type

Specimen TSNB449

Crystals and cleavages of colourless, transparent gypsum (to 35 mm) growing over a cavernous, gossanous matrix with sparse crystals of colourless cerussite.

The specimen is from the Feinglos collection (#2687) and was purchased in 1976 from dealer David New. The location in the mine is not recorded.

cerussite; goethite