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Calcite

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Description
Locality: 
Rucks Pit, Fort Drum, Okeechobee County, Florida, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
15 × 12 × 10 cm
Weight: 
745.00gr
Description

Fossilized shells of two mercenaria sp. whose interiors are now filled with honey coloured trigonal calcite crystals on a dark grey limestone matrix.  The fossils are plio-pleistocene (between 1 and 2 million years old). The calcite is fluorescent blue-green under shortwave and longwave UV light

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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