Epsomite, Epsom salt, or magnesium sulfate heptahydrate, is a hydrous magnesium sulfate mineral with formula MgSO4·7H2O. Epsomite crystallizes in the...
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hydrates, including: Anhydrous, MgSO4; unstable in nature, hydrates to form epsomite. Monohydrate, MgSO4·H2O; kieserite, monoclinic. Monohydrate, MgSO4·H2O;...
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It was described in 1847. Goslarite belongs to the epsomite group which also includes epsomite (MgSO4 · 7 H2O) and morenosite (NiSO4 · 7 H2O). Goslarite...
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(4): 719. doi:10.1139/b74-093. Jenkins, O. P. (1918). "Spotted lakes of epsomite in Washington and British Columbia". American Journal of Science. 46 (275):...
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volcanic fumaroles. Associated minerals include pisanite, chalcanthite, epsomite, pickeringite, halotrichite and other sulfate minerals. It was first described...
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occurs associated with pyrite, marcasite, halotrichite, pickeringite, epsomite, potash alum, melanterite and gypsum. The crystallochemical formula, can...
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Hot Lake was mined for epsomite, initially by the Stewart-Calvert Company during World War I, when the importation of epsomite from Germany was suspended...
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Body-centered 16–24 Rhombic disphenoidal D2 (V) 222 222 [2,2]+ Enantiomorphic Epsomite P222, P2221, P21212, P212121 C2221, C222 F222 I222, I212121 25–46 Rhombic...
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(pyrite or marcasite). Occurs associated with alunogen, pickeringite, epsomite, melanterite, gypsum and native sulfur. Occurrences include Mount Vesuvius...
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CuSO4·5H2O Kieserite MgSO4·H2O Starkeyite MgSO4·4H2O Hexahydrite MgSO4·6H2O Epsomite MgSO4·7H2O Meridianiite MgSO4·11H2O Melanterite FeSO4·7H2O Antlerite Cu3SO4(OH)4...
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Associated minerals include gypsum, halite, thenardite, trona, glauberite, and epsomite. Mirabilite is unstable and quickly dehydrates in dry air, the prismatic...
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(also known as "gypsum flowers" or "oulopholites") consist of gypsum or epsomite. In contrast to anthodites, the needles or "petals" of cave flowers grow...
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Common minerals that are found in these deposits include blödite, borax, epsomite, gaylussite, glauberite, mirabilite, thenardite and trona. Non-marine deposits...
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Elkinstantonite Emmonsite Empressite Enargite Enstatite Eosphorite Ephesite Epidote Epsomite Ericssonite Erionite (series of zeolites) Erythrite Eskolaite Esperite...
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dissolved minerals that contain sulfate. These include baryte (BaSO4), epsomite (MgSO4 7H2O) and gypsum (CaSO42H20). It is reported that a notable change...
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(K2Mg2(SO4)2) sylvite (KCl) – currently used polyhalite (K2MgCa2(SO4)4•2H2O) Epsomite (MgSO 4·7H 2O) kieserite (MgSO 4·H 2O) Even further back in the early 20th...
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ice-cores. It is commonly associated with other evaporite minerals such as epsomite, mirabilite, halides, and other sodium-magnesium-sulfates. There is some...
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lacustrine sediments and coal seams. Associated minerals include melanterite, epsomite, jarosite, gypsum, sulfur, pyrite, marcasite and limonite. It was first...
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rarely in caves. It occurs in association with basaluminite, gibbsite, epsomite, gypsum, celestine, dolomite and goethite. It was first described in 1807...
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Bernardino County, California, in the United States. It was built to carry epsomite from a deposit in the Owlshead Mountains to a siding of the Trona Railway...
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addition to the commodities listed, barite, bench gravel, coal, dolomite, epsomite, and kaolin may have been produced, but available information was inadequate...
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for 28 miles from a connection on the Trona Railway, eastward to harvest epsomite deposits in the Owlshead Mountains. This Lartigue type monorail achieved...
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halite, carnallite, polyhalite, anhydrite, boracite, sulfoborite, leonite, epsomite and celestine. In early 2005, Mars Express, a European Space Agency orbiter...
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MgSO4(H2O)6 [Mg(H2O)6] none hexahydrate common motif MgSO4(H2O)7 [Mg(H2O)6] one epsomite common motif TiOSO4(H2O) [Ti(μ-O)2(H2O)(κ1-SO4)3] none further hydration...
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It forms in fumaroles and in caves. It occurs with kalinite, alunogen, epsomite, melanterite, copiapite and gypsum. It was first described in 1844 as reflective...
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Epistolite Epi Erythrite Ery Euxenite-(Y) Eux-Y Efremovite Efr Ellisite Els Epsomite Esm Erythrosiderite Esd Evansite Evn Eggletonite Egg Elpasolite Elp Erazoite...
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gray limestone and celestine associated with calcite, fluorite, gypsum, epsomite, and rarely, sulfur were first worked by the French circa 1749. United...
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45 km (28 mi) from a connection on the Trona Railway, eastward to harvest epsomite deposits in the Owlshead Mountains. This non-passenger monorail achieved...
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some ore and coal mines. Picromerite is often accompanied by anhydrite, epsomite, halite, hohmannite, kainite, metasideronatrite and metavoltine, depending...
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ten years, between 1963 and 1973. It produces sodium sulfate as well as epsomite and Glauber's salt. It has a reported capacity to produce 400,000 tonnes...
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