6090 Gypsum, Calcite, Porgera Mine, Mt Kare Valley, Mt Hagen, Enga Province, Papua New Guinea

A fine doubly terminated gypsum crystal on a cluster of greenish white calcite scalahedrons. The 4.0 cm gypum crystal is splayed at one termination, this occured insitu and was collected in the 1990’s from the Porgera Gold Mine in the remote New Guinea Highlands. Size: H:5.7cm x W:4.3cm x D:2.6cm

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