Calcite (uncommon locale) with Apatite

Item Description

Well-crystallized calcite is quite rare from Pakistan. This very showy and excellent specimen features an aesthetic cluster of sharp calcite rhombs, dominated by the large rhomb that is 5.0 cm on the diagonal. The rhombs have a scintillating, overgrowth of secondary calcite. The piece is very niftily accented with pastel-pink, translucent, tabular, hexagonal, apatite crystals to 1.6 cm, most of which, are hidden on the partially contacted back of the specimen. This excellent and rare combination specimen is from an uncommon locale - Tole in Waziristan.