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Calcite On Quartz

ex George Fletcher Collection #2426
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Description
Locality: 
Tynebottom Mine, Garrigill, Cumbria, United Kingdom
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7.5 × 5.8 × 2.4 cm
Description

Collected by George Fletcher on 11th May 1971 this specimen consiste of a thin plate of small quartz crystals with a good scatter of white doubly terminated flattened rhombohedral crystals which fluoresce scarlet in shortwave ultra violet light.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Calcite

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

Quartz

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

George Fletcher Collection

Tue, 2015-09-29 15:51 -- admin
Some History
Name: 
George Fletcher
Dates: 
present
Type: 
Collector/Collection
Specialisms: 
Derbyshire/Midlands, Weardale, United Kingdom
About

George Fletcher lives, worked and collected a lot in the Derbyshire, Peak distrct however as a prolific collector travelled all over the...

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