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Calcite

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Description
Locality: 
Kropfmühl, Untergriesbach, Lower Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.5 × 5.5 × 5.5 cm
Largest Crystal: 
3.00cm
Description

A historic Calcite specimen with numerous water-white razor-sharp calcite skalenohedrons up to 30 mm individually.

Beautiful oldtime specimen from Fritz Haller collection.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Calcite

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