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Mineral Specimens with Calcite
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Milky twins of calcite on matrix, an old Swiss piece! 5.4 x 4.4 x 3.8 cm
Irai was known for these superb, gorgeous calcites, and then the supply seemed to dry up. There were hardly any available at the last year''s Tucson show, and they were overpriced, so we bought none. Then, to our surprise, we found a cache of new specimens with one dealer at the small Spring Denver Show last year, and cherry-picked all the best ones, and sold them. Then they disappeared again - until finally, a contact brought us the only specimens we saw at this year''s Tucson Show, and we bought the entire lot - the good, the bad and the ugly - in order to get the good ones - like this one! 10.6 x 5.0 x 4.2 cm
A excellent and UNUSUAL specimen famous Nanisivik Mine, above the Arctic Circle, on Baffin Island, Canada. Lustrous, doubly terminated, amber calcite crystals are preferentially included with pyrite and coated with pyrite. This showy piece is complete all-around and only has one small point of attachment. Ex Marty Lewadny Collection. 3.9 x 2.8 x 2.7 cm
A really cool looking LARGE CABINET specimen. An elongate basalt vug is lined with colorless, ectched calcite rhombs and PERFECTLY centered in the vug is a gorgeous, classic spray of gemmy, green apophyllite crystals. This is an aesthetic and striking piece from Jalgaon, India. VERY UNCOMMON IN THIS QUALITY AND SIZE. 15.7 x 10.5 x 9.4 cm
An EXCELLENT, classic, old-time CABINET combination specimen from the famed Herja Mine of Romania. Cream-colored calcite crystals are very aesthetically set on sparkly, yellow-green siderite crystal discs and on a brassy nest of pyrite. The notecard indicates that the piece was collected in 1967 10.5 x 9.6 x 4.2 cm
A showy CABINET specimen of isolated, tabular, zoned, butterscotch-colored wulfenite crystals to 1.4 cm on a curved banded calcite matrix covered with vanadinite variety endlichite from the famed Ahumada Mine at Los Lamentos, Mexico. The a and b-axis faces on the wulfenite crystals are highly lustrous, while the c-axis faces are frosted and lustrous. Dallas collector, Ed Ruggiero, bought this piece in December, 1974. 10.5 x 6.8 x 4.5 cm
A STRIKING and AESTHETIC Santa Eulalia, Mexico piece of an oval ball of lustrous, brassy, complexly crystallized marcasite beautifully set on lustrous, white, dogtooth calcite crystals. This showy specimen is undamaged. MUCH BETTER IN PERSON. 5.9 x 4.7 x 3.2 cm
A STUNNING and BEAUTIFUL cluster of chlorite-included calcite spires with superb phantoms from Irai, Brazil. A striking piece and the one broken secondary calcite crystal is certainly not detracting. 8.8 x 6.3 x 5.4 cm
A GORGEOUS, gemmy, untwinned, 1.2 cm, cherry-red cinnabar crystal nestled centrally on a nicely contrasting off-white calcite rhomb matrix from China. This fine piece has multiple display possibilities, as you can see. From a respected West Coast private collection. 5.8 x 4.4 x 2.5 cm
A strikingly fine, gemmy and sharp calcite crystal, with a light golden color that did not come out too well in the pics, perched dramatically on a small matrix covered with small, sparkly calcites. This is just a superb crystal - sharpness, glassy luster, etc. - and could not be more aesthetically presented, the way it sits on the matrix . . . 6.1 x 5.4 x 3.2 cm
Two gemmy, very bright and pretty emerald crystals, on a constrasting light gray calcite matrix. Each crystal is terminated on one of its ends. One crystal measures 0.9 cm, the other is 0.5 cm. They really jump out on the matrix with their fine grass-green color! 7.6 x 6.1 x 4.1 cm
A pristine twinned crystal of calcite from a realgar mine in China - actually, there are traces of included realgar inside the crystal! Very sharp, no damage, high luster. 7.5 x 3.5 x 2.7 cm
A showy and excellent specimen of lustrous, lightly tinted, white calcite spheres on matrix from Atikokan, Canada. Ex Marty Lewadny Collection. 9.0 x 5.1 x 4.5 cm
A SUPERB and AESTHETIC specimen lustrous, gun metal-gray galena octohedrons accented by calcite rhombs from the famous Milliken Mine, Viburnum Trend, Missouri. This is older, very choice material from the mine, as galena octohedrons were never common. 9.8 x 5.5 x 5.2 cm
A showy and excellent cluster of lustrous, translucent, pink cobaltoan calcite crystals on matrix from recent finds at Bou Azzer, Morocco. Minor periphery damage is certainly not detracting. 3.9 x 3.5 x 3.1 cm
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share specimen![Calcite from Simplon Railway tunnel (north section), Simplon pass area, Brig, Wallis (Valais), Switzerland [db_pics/mdpics/MD-67743a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-67743a.jpg)
![Calcite from Iraí, Alto Uruguai region, Rio Grande do Sul, South Region, Brazil [db_pics/mdpics/MD-67746a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-67746a.jpg)
![Calcite, Pyrite from Nanisivik Mine, Nanisivik, Baffin Island, Nunavut Territory, Canada [db_pics/mdpics/MD-67797a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-67797a.jpg)
![Apophyllite-(KF), Calcite from Jalgaon District, Maharashtra, India [db_pics/mdpics/MD-67805a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-67805a.jpg)
![Calcite, Siderite, Pyrite from Herja Mine (Kisbánya), Baia Mare (Nagybánya), Maramures Co., Romania [db_pics/mdpics/MD-67806a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-67806a.jpg)
![Wulfenite, Vanadinite, Vanadinite (Var: Arsenatian Vanadinite), Calcite from Erupción Mine (Ahumada Mine; Erupción-Ahumada Mine), Los Lamentos Mts (Sierra de Los Lamentos), Mun. de Ahumada, Chihuahua, Mexico [db_pics/mdpics/MD-67807a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-67807a.jpg)
![Marcasite, Calcite from San Antonio Mine (San Antonio el Grande Mine), East Camp, Santa Eulalia District, Mun. de Aquiles Serdán, Chihuahua, Mexico [db_pics/mdpics/MD-67814a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-67814a.jpg)
![Calcite, Chlorite Group from Iraí, Alto Uruguai region, Rio Grande do Sul, South Region, Brazil [db_pics/mdpics/MD-67816a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-67816a.jpg)
![Cinnabar, Calcite from Hunan Province, China [db_pics/mdpics/MD-67863a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-67863a.jpg)
![Calcite from Jiepaiyu Mine (Shimen Mine), Shimen As-(Au) deposit, Shimen Co., Changde Prefecture, Hunan Province, China [db_pics/mdpics/MD-67881a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-67881a.jpg)
![Beryl (Var: Emerald), Calcite from Chivor Mine, Chivor, Guavió-Guatéque Mining District, Boyacá Department, Colombia [db_pics/mdpics/MD-67888a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-67888a.jpg)
![Calcite from Jiepaiyu Mine (Shimen Mine), Shimen As-(Au) deposit, Shimen Co., Changde Prefecture, Hunan Province, China [db_pics/mdpics/MD-67893a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-67893a.jpg)
![Calcite from Atikokan, Hutchinson Township, Rainy River District, Ontario, Canada [db_pics/mdpics/MD-67996a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-67996a.jpg)
![Galena, Calcite from Sweetwater Mine (Milliken Mine; Frank R. Milliken; Blair Creek; Ozark Lead Company Mine; Adair Creek; Logan Creek), Ellington, Viburnum Trend District, Reynolds Co., Missouri, USA [db_pics/mdpics/MD-67997a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-67997a.jpg)
![Calcite (Var: Cobaltoan Calcite) from Bou Azzer District, Tazenakht, Ouarzazate Province, Souss-Massa-Draâ Region, Morocco [db_pics/mdpics/MD-68997a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-68997a.jpg)