Calcite

Item Description

A showy and good quality specimen of Calcite from a coal mine in Daye, in Hubei, China. This small cabinet sized specimen features a predominant, 5.1 cm, sharp, well-formed, gemmy, beautiful golden yellow colored, robust trigonal crystal of Calcite along with smaller associated Calcites on minor matrix. I love the superb crystal definition of the Calcites, that are distinctive for the species and for Calcites from China in general. Nothing else look like these Calcites from anywhere else in China. The piece is in good shape, though it's contacted around the lower portion where it was removed from the pocket wall. This specimen is from a small find at this deposit from several years ago (about 2010). It was quickly depleted and these are all but impossible to find anymore. Classic material and every Calcite collection needs to have one of these specimens in it. Priced at $750.