Sylvite
at-auction$ 20
- Locality
- Carlsbad, New Mexico, USA
- Minerals
- Sylvite
- Dimensions
- 2.5 x 2 x 1.5 cm
- Size class
- Thumbnail
- SID
- M289
Crystals of translucent reddish Sylvite. Sylvite is potassium chloride and is isomorphous with Halite.
Sylvite is one of the last evaporite minerals to precipitate out of solution. Out of an old collection built in the 1970s-80s.