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Calcite

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Description
Locality: 
La Sambre Quarry, Landelies, Montigny-le-Tilleul, Hainaut, Belgium
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.5 × 3.8 × 2.6 cm
Largest Crystal: 
3.70cm
Description

Aggregate of golden yellow undamaged crystals of calcite, twinned on {0001}, with a short development of a trigonal prism that gives the aspect of triangular crystals.

Collected in 2008 from this famous quarry at Landelies. Ex. Francis Hubert specimen.

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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