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Formula: NaCl
Hardness: 2-2.5
Description: Better known as table salt or rock salt. Halide mineral with an isometric crystal system and a viterous lustre. Often forms as an evaporite deposit in dry lakes, saline lake shorelines, sedimentary salt beds and salt domes.
Specimen number: R26845
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Details
- Title: Halite
- Type: Mineral
- Rights: Geoscience Australia / CC-BY 4.0
- Photographer: Chris Fitzgerald
- Museum ID: R26845
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