Calcite (rare locality specimen) (ex David Burges Collection)

Item Description

A cool Calcite specimen from West Roxbury, Massachusetts featuring a GEMMY, sharp, lustrous, 2.8 cm, modified, very pale yellow colored Calcite crystal with a couple smaller accenting Calcites on host rock matrix. My favorite aspect of the main crystal is that it actually has a slightly frosted thin layer / overgrowth, like a hood, which is partially covering the incredibly LUSTROUS and SMOOTH faces underneath. Very good quality, with only a little bit of roughness, but if you collect worldwide Calcites, you need to add this piece to your collection as they are rarely offered on the market. From the worldwide collection of David Burgess (1951-2016). David was a prolific species collector from Newington, Connecticut, and the namesake for the extremely rare cobalt arsenate species Burgessite, which he discovered.