Tags: Chemical Substance, Mineral.
Meridianiite — MgSO4•11H2O — is the crystalline 11-hydrate magnesium sulfate phase that precipitates from solutions saturated in Mg2+ and SO42- ions at temperatures less than 2 ˚C. Clear to colorless it is a naturally occurring mineral species found on Earth in a variety of environments including sea ice crusts and efflorescence’s in coal/metal mines cave systems oxidized zones of sulfide deposits salt lakes/playa’s and Antarctic ice-cores.
