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Calcite With Native Copper

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Calcite With Native Copper

Ex Dr. Krantz, Bonn, Germany
With Antique Label

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Description
Locality: 
Montecatini Val di Cecina, Pisa Province, Tuscany, Italy
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
6 × 14 × 6 cm
Description

Lustrous white to clear calcite crystals in a vug, accompanied by small arborescent copper crystals and an unknown mineral in spherical gray-green aggregates. In very good condition!
An italian classic, comes with an old label of the italian enterpriser and collector Guiseppe Garbari (1863-1937, Trento, Italy), probably from the time around 1890-1900.
Weight: 460 grams

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Calcite

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

Copper

Formula: 
Cu
Strunz: 
1.AA.05
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0

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