Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Calcite With Quartz & Rhodochrosite

Views:
Watches:
KSC692865

Calcite With Quartz & Rhodochrosite

Fluorescent

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Laki, Laki Obshtina, Plovdiv Oblast, Bulgaria
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7 × 6.3 × 3.7 cm
Description

This mine is not well known,but has given some of the best calcite and qurtz crystals for Bulgaria! What makes the mine really special is the microcrystals of yellow rhodochrosite!This piece comes from a new find of twined scalenohedral manganoan calcite! It's a big one,  sitting on a matrix!The balance is great, with the big crystal in the middle and more on the sides!The crystals are lustrous on every micro face! All the crystals are covered on front and back with micro yellow rhodochrosite crystals! Please note that these are not oxides covering the micro crystals, it's just the yellow color of rhodochrosite, the rarest of all!It's virtually undamaged and the biggest crystal is even doubly termianted!

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

Rhodochrosite

Formula: 
MnCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Cavnic Mine (Kapnikbánya), Cavnic (Kapnic; Kapnik), Maramureș Co., Romania

Seller Information

Payment options: offline, paypal_wpp, paypal_wps