Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Chalcedony & Calcite

Views:
Watches:
MGR880639

Chalcedony & Calcite

Classic Locality

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Hüttenberg, Sankt Veit an der Glan District, Carinthia, Austria
Class: 
Combination
Size Range: 
Museum (18cm plus)
Size: 
18.5 × 13.6 × 14 cm
Description

What a huge and perfect specimen of light blue-purple chalcedony from Hüttenberg. At some parts this piece is also covered in calcite which gives a great visual impact to this specimen.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Chalcedony

Variety Of: 

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Hardness: 
7.0
Hardness: 
6.5 - 7.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Kadıköy (Chalcedon), Istanbul Province, Marmara Region, Turkey

Calcite

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