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Calcite

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Description
Locality: 
Pine Point, Northwest Territories, Canada
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7.5 × 5.5 × 4 cm
Largest Crystal: 
2.50cm
Description

Several Calcite crystals covering dolomite from Pit K-62. One of the crystals is cleaved at the back.

The mine closed in 1988 and there are about 45 pits with many filled with water to ground level especially the ones located closer to Great Slave Lake.

 

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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