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Calcite

Floater

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Description
Locality: 
Hunza Valley, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
Class: 
Single Crystal
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.8 × 4.5 × 3.1 cm
Description

Extremely interresting formed cluster of calcite from Pakistan. Some of the faces show mostly white to pale red colour while some areas are super intense red coloured. The visual apprearence is definitely outsatanding and does remind a bit to a soccer ball. It is even developed as a floater.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Calcite

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