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Calcite

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Description
Locality: 
Fallowvee, Waterfoot, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7.5 × 7.5 × 4.5 cm
Description

Although calcite is generally a very common mineral it is not the case in the basalts of Co. Antrim. This specimen that I recently found high up in a river gully on Garron Head is large with good sized crystals for the area and the best I have come across in the past few years.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Calcite

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