Calcite (classic material)

Charcas, Charcas Municipality, San Luis Potosi, Mexico
Small Cabinet, 5.7 x 4.2 x 2.1 cm
Start Time: 01/23/2025 7:45:00 pm (CST)
End Time: 01/30/2025 6:45:00 pm (CST)
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Current Bid: $50
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Item Description

Here we have an attractive, aesthetic, old-time Charcas Calcite specimen featuring a stacked group of off-white colored compressed ("disc"-like) and prismatic crystals free of matrix. The terminations have more of a milky white hue, almost "white caps" if you will. The largest crystal measures 1.2 cm long. The crystals show an eye-catching pink fluorescence under SW UV light, which means that they are manganese-bearing, even if they don't show much in the way of a pink color. The piece is in good shape on the front/display side, with minor imperfections that you can see under magnification. A showy display piece of these now hard to find Calcites from one of the great Mexican localities.

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Bidding History

Bid Amount Bid Time
$50 01/25/2025 12:31:11 pm (CST)
$45 01/25/2025 12:31:11 pm (CST)
$10 01/23/2025 10:23:16 pm (CST)