Calcite

Steve Rust

  

A 3 cm flattened rhombohedron (disc) of calcite, perched delicately atop a stalactitic cluster of galena crystals . The galena stalactite is complete all around, as is the calcite. Several forms of galena are present.

Origin: Blackdene Mine, Weardale, Durham, England

Sample size: 8 x 5 x 2.5 cm

 

  

Twinned calcite crystal with modified terminations, perched atop a smaller crystal

Origin: Elmwood Mine, Smith County, Tennessee, U.S.A.

Sample size: 14.5 x 6 x 6 cm
 

  

Origin: Charcas, San Luis Potosi, Mexico

Sample size: 8 x 7 x 6 cm

 

Calcite on calcite

Origin: Rosarita Beach, Baja California, Mexico

Sample size: 3 x 3 x 2.5 cm

 

  

Calcite on dolomite pseudomorph cast after calcite

Origin: Valenciana Mine, Guanajuato, Mexico
Ex. Miller Calcite Collection

Sample size: 7 x 6 x 3 cm

 

     

Calcite on calcite

Origin: El Potosi Mine, Santa Elulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico

Sample size: 13.5 x 8 x 6 cm

 

  

Origin: Dodo, Polar Urals, Russia

Sample size: 9 x 6 x 5 cm

 

Photo courtesy of: 

The Arkenstone

 

Calcite pseudomorph after shortite

Origin: Green River, Sweetwater Co., Wyoming, U.S.A.

Sample size: 0.6 x 2 cm

 

Origin: Shullsberg, Lafayette Co., Wisconsin, U.S.A.

Sample size: 7 x 11 cm

 

Photo courtesy of: 

Diederik Visser

Diederik Visser Minerals & Petrological Services

 

  

Origin: North Vernon, Indiana, United States

Sample size: 4 x 3.5 x 2 cm

 

Photo courtesy of: 

Tom Loomis

Dakota Matrix Minerals

 

  

  

Calcite with fluorite, pyrite on quartz

Origin: Shangbao Mine, Leiyang, Hengyang area, Hunan, Central South Region, China

Sample size: 11.6 x 4.4 x 6.2 cm

 

Photo courtesy of: 

Dan Weinrich

Dealer in fine mineral specimens