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Blödite
- Soda Lake
- Carrizo Plain
- San Luis Obispo County
- California
- U.S.A.
- 5.1 × 4.0 × 1.8 cm – Miniature specimen (fits into a 5 cm cube)
Blödite is a hydrated sodium magnesium sulfate. The mineral name honors German chemist Carl August Blöde (1773-1820) (Iohn, 1821). Blödite is water soluble, and forms by dehydration of a dry lake. Like many species forming in dry lake muds, blödite forms complete single crystals.
This is a large single crystal of blödite. Such large crystals date to collecting days of Art Eadie (1912-1989), who found the largest blödite crystals known from this locality. Part of the collection of E.R. Laskowski (1949-2020), a mining engineer who retired to Tucson, Arizona.
Price: $100
Item code: MS1957
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