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Calcite

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Description
Locality: 
Dean Quarry, St Keverne, Cornwall, United Kingdom
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
10 × 6 × 2 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.50cm
Weight: 
193.00gr
Description

Large plate of well formed  almost transparent glassy rhombohedral crystals up to 1 cm size with modified faces on thin matrix

Crystallised calcite is not common in Cornwall except from long closed localities

Displays well (with acrylic stand)

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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