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Calcite With Hematite

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Calcite With Hematite

(Eisenrahm)

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Description
Locality: 
Juchem Quarry, Niederwörresbach, Herrstein, Birkenfeld, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
5.2 × 10.6 × 6 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.70cm
Description

Part of a vug with orange-brown calcite crystals on quartz crystals covered with "eisenrahm". Some of the calcite crystal tips got a little damaged during the recovery but most of them got away without a hickey . Still lovable.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Calcite

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

Hematite

Formula: 
Fe2O3
Strunz: 
4.CB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
5.0 - 6.0

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