Ikaite Image

Join the club, silver, gold and platinum-level memberships available as low as $10.00 a month. High quality mineral specimens mailed to your home or school each month. An affordable way to build your collection.

John Betts - Fine Minerals, New York. Dealers of Fine Minerals and Natural Crystal Clusters since 1989. We buy rock collections, we buy gem collections, we buy mineral collections.

Hudson Institute of Mineralogy

McDougall Minerals sells high-quality mineral specimens from all over the world to collectors of all levels, from beginners to connoisseurs

Ikaite

Large Ikaite Image

Mineral:

Ikaite: CaCO3·6(H2O)

Comments:

Rounded, colorless crystals of ikaite extracted from Antarctic sea ice cores. Ikaite may be more common than previously thought.

Location:

Southern sea near the Antarctic shore.

Scale:

See Image.

Copyright:

© Geophyscial Research Letters

Counter:

This Image has been shown 17932 times

Image Links: