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Calcite (C-axis twin) on Sphalerite from Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee

 
Calcite (C-axis twin) on Sphalerite from Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee

Calcite (C-axis twin) on Sphalerite from Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee

Calcite (C-axis twin) on Sphalerite from Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee

DESCRIPTION:No. 57643
Mineral:Calcite (C-axis twin) on Sphalerite
Locality:Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee
Description:Lustrous yellow transparent-to-translucent scalenohedral calcite crystals surrounded by smaller colorless calcite crystals to 9 mm on brown sphalerite. The calcite is twinned on the C-axis with twin plane reentrant faces visible in the middle. collected in 2012
Overall Size:11x7x5.5 cm
Crystals:1-100 mm
Archived: For reference only

 

 

 

 

 

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