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Calcite On Quartz

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Calcite On Quartz

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Description
Locality: 
Cavnic Mine, Maramureș County, Romania
Size Range: 
Museum (18cm plus)
Size: 
22.5 × 21 × 11 cm
Description

This is truely a very attractive museum specimen from Cavnic mine, collected in the early 1970s.

Beautiful lustrous scalenohedral calcite crystals on a bed of small gemmy quartz crystals with golden pyrite and chalcopyrite crystals and some large translucent quartz crystals.

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