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Hematite & Calcite

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Hematite & Calcite

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Description
Locality: 
Tozal Negro Quarry, Barxeta, Valencia, Valencian Community, Spain
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.8 × 4.5 × 3.7 cm
Weight: 
82.00gr
Description

Small, but beautiful and very aesthetic specimen of iron rose and calcite with complex crystallization on a porphyric matrix, this piece comes from a subvolcanic rock exploitation that used the material to make aggregates that were used in construction and was found more than 30 years ago and nowadays it is impossible to find anything there because the quarry is stopped and flooded, now it is a lake. Actually, nowadays this piece is a classic of the Valencian and Spanish mineralogy.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Hematite

Formula: 
Fe2O3
Strunz: 
4.CB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
5.0 - 6.0

Calcite

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

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