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Calcite

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Description
Locality: 
Stefanie Mine, Bad Bleiberg, Carinthia, Austria
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.6 × 2.6 × 2.2 cm
Description

A gemmy transparent and lustrous isolated calcite crystal var. "Kanonenspat" attractively set on matrix! Specimen like this were never common and the locality ws closed in the 60ties, so this material is really hard to obtain in our days.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Calcite

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