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Manganoan Calcite Quartz & Pyrite

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Manganoan Calcite Quartz & Pyrite

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Description
Locality: 
Huanggang Mine, Hexigten Banner, Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia, China (Peoples Republic)
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
12.3 × 8.5 × 5.5 cm
Largest Crystal: 
3.50cm
Weight: 
512.00gr
Description

Beautiful specimen, fully crystallized with numerous clear, elongated and glassy Quartz crystals, highly lustrous, associated with blocky and prismatic, highly fluorescent, pale pink, transparent to translucent, lustrous Calcite crystals, in all sizes, from 2.0mm to 1.50cm for the bigger crystal on the top left side, scattered and nesting over and in between the Quartz dense crystallization. Interestingly, there is a Quartz crystal with a scepter formation which I highlight and show in the according pictures. Minor small Pyrite crystals visible in between as well

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Manganoan Calcite

Variety Of: 

Calcite

Formula: 
CaCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Hardness: 
3.0
Formula: 
(Ca,Mn)CO3
Hardness: 
0.0

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
7.0
Streak: 
White

Pyrite

Formula: 
FeS2
Strunz: 
2.EB.05a
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
6.0 - 6.5

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