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Calcite

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Description
Locality: 
Mount Isa, Mount Isa City Shire, Queensland, Australia
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
3.9 × 5.3 × 3 cm
Description

A most unusual calcite from Mt Isa, looking all thw world like a walled castle.

I can only guess how this specimen formed, it is obvious that there is at least two generations of growth, it is terminated both ends and it appears to have been broken, etched and healed insitu. 

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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