1.55" Quartz Crystal with Calcite - China

This is a quartz crystal that has a small calcite crystal at its termination. There are small green inclusions within the quartz crystal that are likely chlorite. This specimen comes on a piece of mineral tack within an acrylic perky display case.

Calcite, CaCO3, is a carbonate mineral and the most stable polymorph of calcium carbonate. The other polymorphs are the minerals aragonite and vaterite. Calcite crystals are trigonal-rhombohedral, though actual calcite rhombohedra are rare as natural crystals. However, they show a remarkable variety of habits including acute to obtuse rhombohedra, tabular forms, and prisms. Calcite exhibits several twinning types adding to the variety of observed forms. It may occur as fibrous, granular, lamellar, or compact. Cleavage is usually in three directions parallel to the rhombohedron form.


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SPECIES
Quartz & Calcite
LOCATION
China
SIZE
1.55" long
CATEGORY
ITEM
#161625