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Calcite & Limonite

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Calcite & Limonite

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Description
Locality: 
Hahnenfurth Quarry, Dornap, Wuppertal, Düsseldorf, North Rhine - Westphalia, Germany
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
11 × 10 × 9.2 cm
Weight: 
1 003.00gr
Description

Big and heavy 'hedgehog'-style calcite crystal group with limonite crusts. Some damage, but still a nice, decorative specimen. You hardly see anything from the mining era in Wuppertal.

Several tips are missing - this is almost unavoidable, because those 'hedgehogs' grow mostly in matrix and only the iron-oxide-layer keeps them from sticking in completely.

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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