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Calcite

Fluorescent

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Description
Locality: 
Nith River, Dumfries Township, Brant County, Ontario, Canada
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7 × 5.5 × 2.5 cm
Description

Near Paris, Ontario, along the Nith River is a tufa outcrop. During the spring runoff in 2008 a great mass of the tufa was washed away. Exposed were several cavities at the interface of a calcite-cemented conglomerate unit and the tufa unit.

This caramel-coloured specimen is travertine, a variety of calcite. It consists of a hedgehog array of white-tipped calcite crystals. The reverse side (not shown) is the contact with the conglomerate.

The calcite fluoresces strong, pale yellow in long wave ultra violet light, and also phosphoresces.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Calcite

Polymorph of: 
Formula: 
CaCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.0
Streak: 
White

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