Calcite (bicolor - two generations)

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These new Calcites from Xianghualing are certainly some of the most attractive and colorful from China. Dozens of sharp, lustrous, gemmy, pale yellow, compressed rhombohedral Calcite crystals form "pagoda"-like or "nail head" shaped groups (second generation) have overgrown vibrant salmon-orange color scaleonhedral crystals (first generation). The piece is not 100% perfect, but it is in decent shape overall. There is one spot on the top of the specimen which appears to be a cleaved or broken crystals, but I have photographed it up close to show that it is not at all damaged, but is in fact crystallized, and you can clearly see the relfection of acutal crystal faces (not cleavages). The final touch to these crystals is that they are included with tiny crystals of golden Pyrite, which obviously was deposited at the same time as the second generation of Calcite crystals, as it is completely suspended inside the rhombs.