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Calcite

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Description
Locality: 
Potosí Mine, Francisco Portillo, Santa Eulalia, Aquiles Serdán Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8.2 × 6.4 × 4.6 cm
Description

This is a fine and almost pristine specimen of well defined, brown crystals of Calcite from the famous Potosí Mine at Santa Eulalia, Mexico. The Calcite is sharp edged, highly lustrous and excellent terminated with a typical second generation of the same species, set atop the crystals. A super specimen from the heydays of collecting at this great mine.

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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