Springwood Salt Lake is located west of the Silver City Highway, approximately 100 km north of Wentworth, NSW, Australia. It occupies a depression, about 10 km x 6 km in size, which appears to have once been a large lake but now consists of a number of small salinas. In mid 1981 crystals of mirabilite were collected from small depressions, the imprints left by cattle tracks, in two of these salinas, at the eastern end of the depression. Small roughly equi-dimensional and rarely perfect crystals, from 2 to 5 cm across, lined the bottoms of the depressions. In most of the depressions these were overlain by larger tabular (paper-thin and typically 12mm x 9mm) and prismatic (up to 40 mm long and 2 mm to 3 mm across) crystals. On exposure to weak sunlight the mirabilite readily dehydrated to powdery thenardite.

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ⓘ Gypsum

✪ Mirabilite

ⓘ Thénardite

3 valid minerals.

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ⓘ Gypsum

Formula: CaSO₄ · 2H₂O

References:

Sutton, P. (1982) Mirabilite from south-western N.S.W. The Australian Mineralogist, 37, 200.

✪ Mirabilite

Formula: Na₂SO₄ · 10H₂O

References:

Sutton, P. (1982) Mirabilite from south-western N.S.W. The Australian Mineralogist, 37, 200.

Sutton, P. (2004) Minerals from evaporative basins in the Mallee District, Murray Basin, south-eastern Australia. Australian Journal of Mineralogy, 10 (1). 13-28

ⓘ Thénardite

Formula: Na₂SO₄

References:

Sutton, P. (2004) Minerals from evaporative basins in the Mallee District, Murray Basin, south-eastern Australia. Australian Journal of Mineralogy, 10 (1). 13-28

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Group 7 - Sulphates, Chromates, Molybdates and Tungstates
ⓘ	Thénardite	7.AD.25	Na₂SO₄
ⓘ	Mirabilite	7.CD.10	Na₂SO₄ · 10H₂O
ⓘ	Gypsum	7.CD.40	CaSO₄ · 2H₂O

List of minerals for each chemical element

H	Hydrogen
H	ⓘ Gypsum	CaSO₄ · 2H₂O
H	ⓘ Mirabilite	Na₂SO₄ · 10H₂O
O	Oxygen
O	ⓘ Gypsum	CaSO₄ · 2H₂O
O	ⓘ Mirabilite	Na₂SO₄ · 10H₂O
O	ⓘ Thénardite	Na₂SO₄
Na	Sodium
Na	ⓘ Mirabilite	Na₂SO₄ · 10H₂O
Na	ⓘ Thénardite	Na₂SO₄
S	Sulfur
S	ⓘ Gypsum	CaSO₄ · 2H₂O
S	ⓘ Mirabilite	Na₂SO₄ · 10H₂O
S	ⓘ Thénardite	Na₂SO₄
Ca	Calcium
Ca	ⓘ Gypsum	CaSO₄ · 2H₂O

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Australia

Adelaide SuperbasinBasin
Berri BasinBasin
Delamerian OrogenOrogen
Murray BasinBasin

Australian PlateTectonic Plate

Delamerian OrogenOrogenic Belt

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References

Sutton, P. (1982) Mirabilite from south-western N.S.W. The Australian Mineralogist, 37, 200.

Sutton, P. (2004) Minerals from evaporative basins in the Mallee District, Murray Basin, south-eastern Australia. Australian Journal of Mineralogy, 10 (1). 13-28

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