Calcite (rare locality specimen) (ex Kay Robertson Collection)

El Hammam Mine, El Hammam, Meknes, Meknes Prefecture, Meknes-Tafilalet Region, Morocco
Small Cabinet, 5.6 x 5.3 x 3.3 cm
Start Time: 09/27/2018 6:45:00 pm (CDT)
End Time: 10/04/2018 6:45:00 pm (CDT)
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Item Description

A hard to find display piece from this mine best known for its Fluorite specimens. Here we have a sculptural cluster of hexagonal Calcite crystals from the November 2008 find. The crystals have pretty light pastel-pinkish color in areas (from iron inclusions), with glassy smooth prism faces and slightly stacked trigonal terminations. Bright pink-orange fluorescence as well! Ex Kay Robertson Collection (#11989). Kay is a prominent California collector, who specialized in European classics (see the article in the March-April, 2007 Mineralogical Record and the 50+ page article in the German Magazine "Mineralien Welt" November-December 2017).

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