Halite - Specimen

Locality: Kłodawa Salt Mine, Kłodawa, Koło County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland

Halite is sodium chloride, NaCl, the mineral form of rock salt, and its name comes from the Greek for salt. It is soft, at 2 to 2.5 on the Mohs scale, cleaves perfectly into cubes, dissolves in water and tastes salty. It typically forms in evaporite sedimentary rocks, where it can build immense beds.

The Kłodawa deposit in central Poland is a salt dome, or diapir, about 26 km long, made of salt laid down in the Zechstein period that later rose toward the surface. Gravity surveys first detected it in the 1930s. The mine was planned for potassium salts, but the deposit proved to be mainly rock salt, and the first tonnes were extracted in 1956. It is now the largest producer of rock salt in Poland.

This one of a kind Halite mineral specimen from Poland features a long, slender formation covered in naturally stepped, cubic crystal growths. The piece has a translucent to milky-white upper surface with warm beige to champagne tones along the lower edges, giving it a layered and dimensional appearance. Its jagged, sparkling surface is made up of intergrown cubic crystals, with many small hopper-like faces and geometric terraces visible throughout the specimen.

Halite, commonly known as rock salt, is a naturally occurring sodium chloride mineral that has been used by people for thousands of years for food preservation, trade, and industry. Poland has a famous history of salt mining, especially through historic deposits such as Wieliczka and Kłodawa.

In crystal traditions, halite is associated with cleansing and purification.

Quantity: 1pc
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