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Calcite On Quartz

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Calcite On Quartz

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Description
Locality: 
San Juan de Rayas Mine, Guanajuato, Guanajuato Municipality, Guerrero, Mexico
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7 × 4 × 2.2 cm
Description

Aesthetic and undamaged small cabinet of white calcite on quartz from Los Rayes, Mexico.

Ex H. u. B. Dilcher collection (from a field trip to Mexico in the 1980s)

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Calcite

Polymorph of: 
Formula: 
CaCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.0
Streak: 
White

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
7.0
Streak: 
White

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