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Mammoth Cave, Mammoth Cave National Park, Edmondson and Hart Cos., Kentucky, USA

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This location was famous for calcite (travertine), aragonite and gypsum speleothems. Collecting minerals in the National Park and in all Kentucky caves is illegal. Specimens pre-dating collecting laws do exist in museums.

Ref.: Palache, C., Berman, H., & Frondel, C. (1951), The System of Mineralogy of James Dwight Dana and Edward Salisbury Dana, Yale University 1837-1892, Volume II: 306.





Mineral List:
  		•  Aragonite
    CaCO
     
    3
    Reference: []
  		•  Calcite
    CaCO
     
    3
    Reference: [Am Min 50:1461-1465]
  		•  Epsomite
    MgSO
     
    4
    		·7H
     
    2
    		O
    Reference: []
  		•  Gypsum
    Ca[SO
     
    4
    		] · 2H
     
    2
    		O
    Reference: [Am Min 50:1461-1465]
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    Mammoth Cave, Mammoth Cave National Park, Edmondson and Hart Cos., Kentucky, USA
    © Alan Goldstein
  		•  Mirabilite
    Na
     
    2
    		SO
     
    4
    		·10H
     
    2
    		O
    Reference: []
  		•  Nitratine
    NaNO
     
    3
    Reference: []
  		•  Nitrocalcite
    Ca(NO
     
    3
    		)
     
    2
    		·4H
     
    2
    		O
    Reference: [Palache, C., Berman, H., & Frondel, C. (1951), The System of Mineralogy of James Dwight Dana and Edward Salisbury Dana, Yale University 1837-1892, Volume II: 306.]
  		•  Pyrite
    FeS
     
    2
    Reference: [Am Min 50:1461-1465]


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