Calcite (bicolor - two generations)

Xianghualing Mine, Linwu County, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province, China
Miniature, 4.6 x 4.0 x 3.3 cm
Start Time: 04/08/2010 6:45:00 pm (CDT)
End Time: 04/15/2010 6:45:00 pm (CDT)
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Item Description

These new Calcites from Xianghualing are certainly some of the most attractive and colorful from China. Several sharp, rather 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. The final touch to these crystals is that they are included with a few 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.

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