SC1116 – Glauberite from the Salton Sea, California, USA

Glauberite crystal, fluorescent light blue under shortwave UV light, pink under longwave UV.

Locality: Salton Sea, Imperial County, California, USA (Mindat)
MinID: FWR-CCK
Size: 4.5 x 3 x 3 cm
Weight: 24.91 g

Fluorescence under shortwave UV light.

Fluorescence under longwave UV light.

Normal light.

Raman spectra (in red) matching the glauberite reference (in black).

Original label – unknown.

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