Cobaltoan Calcite (good color and quality)

Item Description

The good supply of minerals from the Congo should not blind you to the value of the best specimens. This beautiful miniature sized display piece features good quality, notably sharp, lustrous, gemmy, intense purplish-pink Cobaltoan Calcite compressed rhombohedra measuring up to 7 mm on matrix. Great quality, hard to find on the market right now, and certainly worthwhile for any collector. This color is superior to many from this area, combined with the fact that there are distinct individual crystals with glassy faces and great internal gemminess. No real damage, save the periphery where the piece was removed from the pocket wall. You don't see many Cobaltoan Calcites of this quality on the market, they're usually more dull, opaque and softer color. This is about as good as it gets for color, especially in smaller sized crystals.