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Calcite

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Description
Locality: 
Fengjiashan Mine, Daye County, Huangshi, Hubei Province, China (Peoples Republic)
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8 × 4.7 × 4.7 cm
Description

Large scalenohedral calcite with brown limontite on the surfaces. The large crystal is partially overgrown with parallel flattened rhombohedral calcite crystals up to 18 mm long with red-brown hematite inclusions.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Calcite

Polymorph of: 
Formula: 
CaCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.0
Streak: 
White