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Calcite On Quartz

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Calcite On Quartz

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Description
Locality: 
Mine #5, Baia Sprie, Maramureș County, Romania
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
15 × 10 × 5 cm
Description

Beautiful tabular calcite crystals on a bed of white quartz crystals with minor sphalerite and pyrite crystals.

Very attractive specimen.

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