AllMinerals/JohnBetts-FineMinerals > Online Mineral Museum Photographic Archive > Minerals from China > Calcite (contact-twinned) on Calcite with Limonite coating |
DESCRIPTION: | No. 73808 |
Mineral: | Calcite (contact-twinned) on Calcite with Limonite coating |
Locality: | Daye, Huangshi, Hubei, China |
Description: | Lustrous transparent colorless calcite crystals over an earlier generation of calcite crystals with yellow limonite coating on select faces. The calcite crystals are tabular hexagonal form with rhombic termination faces and are twinned on {001} plane. Collected ca. 1996 |
Overall Size: | 8x5x3.5 cm |
Crystals: | micro to 28 mm |
Archived: | For reference only |
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