Calcite on Quartz
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Calcite on Quartz
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- Availability
- Sold
- Size
- 5 x 5 x 5 cm - Miniature
- Formula
- CaCO3 (RRUFF)
- Locality
- Geevor mine, Pendeen, St Just dist., Cornwall, England
- Tagged
- carbonate
Aesthetic specimen of orange, discoidal Calcite to over 1cm in nice clusters on Quartz. The original tag (prov. tab) shows it to be from the "Coronation Lode" of the Geevor mine.
Calcite
- Formula
- CaCO3
- Crystal System
- Trigonal
- Crystal Habit
- Crystalline - Coarse, Stalactitic, Massive
- Cleavage
- Perfect, Perfect, Perfect
- Luster
- Vitreous (Glassy)
- Color
- colorless, white, pink, yellow, brown
- Streak
- white
- Class
- Trigonal - Hexagonal Scalenohedral
- Fracture
- Brittle - Conchoidal
- Hardness
- 3
Data courtesy of Webmineral.
- Collection
- Phillips Collection
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