| 8hhjhnr ((HALITE on GYPSUM)), $20 MINIMUM BID, Great Salt Lake, Tooele County, Utah, 20 x 9.5 x 8 cm, Cabinet, | |
 | Here is a large Cabinet specimen from the one time find a couple of years ago. This has a stalactite like formation on its side formed from Gypsum crystals growing on a branch or limb and then falling over in the water to the bottom also covered with Gypsum. Then secondary the sparkling cubes of colorless Halite crystalized onto the Gypsum. Single and twinned Gypsum crystals have always been found but this is the first find having the stalactite like formation covered with sharp pointed Gypsum crystals protruding from the stalactite like a cactus. |
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