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Calcite

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Description
Locality: 
NChwaning Mines, Kuruman, Northern Cape Province, South Africa
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.9 × 2.4 × 1 cm
Weight: 
8.00gr
Description

Orange coloured calcite crystals that form a tabular parallel cluster, probably twinned, completely coated by a thin secondary calcite growth that is white and very lustrous. An aesthetic representative piece from Willy Israel, a well-known Belgian collector, who bought it in South Africa in 1978.

Ex Willy Israel, with his label attached at the box.

Combine specimens to reduce shipping costs!.

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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