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Calcite

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Description
Locality: 
Rotgülden, Lungau, Salzburg, Austria
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
13.3 × 9.1 × 4.2 cm
Description

Sharp terminated, partly glossy discs of clacite cover a large matrix. The specimen is from old discoveries from old shafts of the historic arsenic mine. Today the area is a nature park and field collecting is prohibited, no new material can be expected.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Calcite

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