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Calcite

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Description
Locality: 
Kronprinz Mine, Oberwesel, Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Class: 
Single Crystal
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.7 × 0.9 × 0.9 cm
Description

Unusual skeletal aggregate of brown Calcite, colored by organic material (mine timber) from an abandoned, lesser known slate mine in eastern Hunsrück. Collected in 2011.

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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