Resource potential of natural and synthetic gypsum waste
About 100 200 million years ago the mineral gypsum [calcium sulfate dihydrate CaSO 4 2H 2 O ] got precipitated due to evaporation of sea water It is deposited in sedimentary layers of marine environment Under high pressure and temperature gypsum is transformed into anhydrite CaSO 4 In nature gypsum and anhydrite occur as beds or nodular masses up to a