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Calcite

Floater

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Description
Locality: 
La Sambre Quarry, Landelies, Montigny-le-Tilleul, Hainaut, Belgium
Class: 
Single Crystal
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.2 × 4.3 × 3.1 cm
Description

A sharp termianted and glossy, honey-yellow single crystal in exceptional dimension for the locality - and even developed as floater. No new material came from the locality since years, the area of the quarry where calcite were found is meanwhile non-productive!

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Calcite

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