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Calcite

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Locality: 
Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7.3 × 3.4 × 2.4 cm
Description

I'm always looking for something different and I found it in this calcite from Broken Hill. It sits well on the matrix for display and features a nice array of slender multi-faced scalenahedral crystals. What initially looked like dirt on these crystals turned out to be lovely brassy micro pyrite crystals. Quite delicately aesthetic for a Broken Hill calcite but the real show is when the lights go off and the L.W UV goes on ! The specimen fluoresces a bright orange as you can see in the photos.

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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