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Calcite

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Description
Locality: 
La Sambre Quarry, Landelies, Montigny-le-Tilleul, Hainaut, Belgium
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.9 × 5.1 × 3.6 cm
Largest Crystal: 
3.50cm
Weight: 
84.00gr
Description

Highly modified scalenohedral crystal group of yellow coloured calcites on a lime matrix. The main crystals form a doubly terminated cluster, twinned on {0001}, and are accompanied by many other smaller crystals of different size.

In good condition, with just minor erosions, it was collected by Francis Hubert in 2006 at the famous quarry at Landelies.

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Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Calcite

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

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