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Calcite Quartz & Sphalerite

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Calcite Quartz & Sphalerite

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Description
Locality: 
Mine #5, Baia Sprie, Maramureș County, Romania
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
11 × 10 × 6 cm
Largest Crystal: 
5.00cm
Description

This is a very attractive and showy specimen from Baia Sprie with beautiful and large, snow-white calcite scalenohedrons up to 5 cm on a sphalerite rich matrix.

The pristine specimen is beautiful associated with gemme needle quartz crystals.

Beautiful specimen from Wendland collection.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Calcite

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

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
7.0
Streak: 
White

Sphalerite

Formula: 
ZnS
Strunz: 
2.CB.05a
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0