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Dolomite

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Dolomite

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Description
Locality: 
Consolidation Mine, Gelsenkirchen, Ruhr, North Rhine - Westphalia, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Museum (18cm plus)
Size: 
19 × 9 × 4 cm
Description

This is a very old and good dolomite specimen from the famous Consolidation coal Mine in Germany.

Large pale brown dolomite crystals on a bed of tiny gemmy quartz crystals with lustrous gemmy golden sphalerite and chalcopyrite microcrystals.

Very good display specimen from Armin Wendland collection - sawn base.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Dolomite

Formula: 
CaMg(CO3)2
Strunz: 
5.AB.10
Crystal System: 
Trigonal - Rhombohedral
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Streak: 
White