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Mindat Short Description
Epsomite Group; Epsomite-Morenosite Series; Epsomite-Goslarite Series.
A complete series exists to Morenosite and to Goslarite.
Usually found as crusts, delicate efflorescences, or botryoidal masses of tiny fibrous to acicular crystals, its colo...
Geoscience Ontology Status Notes
The mineral was previously known, but was named epsonite in this paper: Delamétherie J C (1806) Tableau des analyses chimiques des minéraux, et d'une nouvelle classification de ces substances, fondée sur ces analyses, Journal de Physique, de Chimie et d´Histoire Naturelle 62, 319-365; 376-405
IMA Formula (from Mindat)
Mg(SO4) · 7H2O
RRUFF Formula (from Geoscience Ontology)
MgS6+O4·7H2O
