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Calcite

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Description
Locality: 
Prettau Glacier, South Tirol, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
9.2 × 7 × 3.4 cm
Largest Crystal: 
4.20cm
Description

A fine specimen features many doubly terminated scalenohedrons of calcite on matrix. The calcite is lustrous, sharp edged and undamaged with a nice striation and associated with less chlorite. Some of the crystals seems to be twinned. A fantastic alpine calcite specimen with only minor imperfection in peripherie.

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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