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Calcite

Fluorescent

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Description
Locality: 
Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7 × 4.9 × 3 cm
Description

A really nice honey coloured calcite that forms rounded bunches of micro crystals and is sprinkled with thin white 'sugar' calcite in patches giving great contrast. As an added bonus this specimen also fluoresces a pale orange colour. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Calcite

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