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Mineral Specimens with Calcite
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A DRAMATIC and SUPERB LARGE CABINET specimen of 7 RARE, GREEN, translucent fluorite hemispheres to 1.8 cm with calcite crystals on quartz over basalt matrix from the UNIQUE find a few years ago at the Mahodari Quarry in India. Green fluorite is the least common color varietal from this find. Yellow and red are much more common. 16.5 x 10.5 x 6.8 cm
AN AESTHETIC CABINET specimen of botryoidal, yellow-orange, cadmium-rich smithsonite preferentially coated by sharp, colorless calcite rhombs. The calcite rhombs look like snow draping a mountain side, giving a dramatic look. From the Ed Ruggiero Collection, who personally collected this stunning piece from the Monte Cristo Mine in Arkansas in September, 1975! His card says that this is the largest piece, that he collected that day. This is a unique pocket, and a great combo for the locality. I have not seen such specimens except from this seemingly onetime find 30 years ago. 11.7 x 9.3 x 5.2 cm
A VERY SHOWY and beautiful MATCHED PAIR of Mexican geode halves. Lustrous, transparent to translucent, "angel-wing" calcite crystals to 3.5 cm rest on a lining of nicely contrasting blue chalcedony. An exceptional pair from Mexico. Choice material from the Lewadny Collection. 13.0 x 12.2 x 5.3 cm
An EXCELLENT, undamaged, two-sided cluster of very glassy, transparent, calcite rhombs from Tsumeb. MUCH, MUCH BETTER IN PERSON. 4.2 x 3.2 x 2.2 cm
A beautiful, aesthetic and pristine specimen of lustrous, translucent and colorless calcite scalenohedrons to 1.8 cm nearly covering sulfide matrix from the famous San Antonio Mine at Santa Eulalia, Mexico. The largest calcite crystal on the bottom front really sets off this showy piece. Choice material from the Lewadny Collection. 6.5 x 6.0 x 3.4 cm
Pink rhodochrosite in association with quartz crystals, sparkly and pretty, from the prolific Cavnic locality in Romania. 6.3 x 4.2 x 2.5 cm
Is this gorgeous, or WHAT? Super-bright and sparkly pyrite microcrystals cloat calcite crystals, with a later generation of calcites having grown on the earlier bed so they stick up above this golden field. This specimen was mined in Eastern Europe earlier this year. BETTER IN PERSON! 6.6 x 4.7 x 3.3 cm
A huge, dramatic old Charcas calcite specimen, with the characteristic hexagonal crystals that look like plates pressed together. They crystals on this plate have an amazing aesthetic arrangement, angled in towards the center, which what almost appears like the pistils of a flower in the center (a second mineral -- perhaps dolomite). The side faces of the calcites have a glassy luster. This is actually a floater - the back of the specimen has more of these calcite crystals stacked up. There are some dings on the back, but on the front, only a couple of contacts at the top of the two "pistils" (and next to one of them on a calcite), which were probably attached in the pocket and therefore had to be broken off to get the piece out. 15.1 x 10.2 x 9.8 cm
A very unusual stack of poker-chip style calcites, a pagoda form seen in a recent pocket from this mine, growing along the side of a coated (complete and terminated) quartz crystal. 4.4 x 2.8 x 2.2 cm
A BIG, showy specimen of creamy, sparkly calcites that have partly covered a plate of quartz crystals. 15.5 x 14.5 x 12.2 cm
Look at the SIZE of these pink cobaltoan calcite crystals! Cobaltoan calcite is most often seen as a druse, but occasionally fine pieces with big crystals come out of Morocco. These crystals measure to 1.2 cm in length! There is the normal damage to the crystals around the periphery, but this is almost always the case with these due to the way the specimens have to be removed. 6.5 x 4.2 x 2.6 cm
A showy, very interesting and unusual specimen of lustrous, color-zoned calcite crystals from the famous San Antonio Mine at Santa Eulalia, Mexico. Hematite causes the beautiful butterscotch and rust-brown zoning. Very minimal peripheral damage does not impair this fine piece. Ex Marty Lewadny Collection of Winnipeg, Canada. 8.6 x 4.8 x 3.1 cm
A SUPERB, pristine and glassy, double phantom CABINET calcite crystal from the famous Sweetwater Mine in the Viburnum Trend of Missouri. Double phantoms are not that common and this is a really good one. The termination is light amber and the rest of the crystal is light gray. Ed Ruggiero bought this from Dr. Gary Hansen at the 1975 Tucson Show. 12.2 x 5.3 x 4.5 cm
A showy and dramatic, two-sided, LARGE CABINET plate from Tsumeb. The display side has isolated rosettes to 2.5 cm of lustrous, off-white calcite rhombs on a very sparkly, gray-white, botryoidal dolomite matrix. The other side is solidly coated with lustrous, off-white calcite rhombs. A very distinctive Tsumeb specimen. MUCH BETTER IN PERSON. 15.3 x 7.8 x 4.0 cm
A DRAMATIC two-sided, casted dolomite crust from Tsumeb. One side has glassy, water-clear, complex calcite rhombs nicely scattered on an intricate-patterned, pink-red dolomite. The dolomite on the other side is smoother and is festooned with calcite rhombs. A very showy piece. 9.3 x 5.8 x 4.4 cm
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