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Danburite with Calcite

Unknown Owner
A colorless glassy translucent crystal of danburite 9.5 cm in length on matrix with scalenohedral colorless crystals of calcite. In good condition.

Product details

Species
Calcite, DanburiteAbout Calcite →
SizeCabinet
Dimensions14.0 x 7.5 x 4.0 cm
Added on01/27/2026
Locality
Mexico, San Luis Potosí, CharcasRegional guide →

Known provenance

DateCollectorAcquisition price
—Unknown Owner$150.00
—Weinrich MineralsNot disclosed

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Calcite
Mineral guide
Learn about Calcite
diverse shapes, colors, and optical quirks; widely available yet scarce elite pieces from Elmwood and Charcas drive collecting value and display.
Calcite
Regional guide
Calcite from Charcas, Mexico
Charcas calcite is one of the great immediately recognizable Mexican calcite styles: flattened, sharply hexagonal rhombohedra stacked like a pile of white-to-gray poker chips, often with satiny or pearly broad faces and glassier edge faces. Good examples have a sculptural, almost architectural quality — single fat disks, stepped stacks, V-shaped clusters, columnar growths, or matrix-free “floaters” that seem too deliberate to be accidental. The classic palette is colorless, white, cream, gray, slightly smoky, and occasionally pinkish; many specimens show a pink to red fluorescence that is part of the locality’s appeal for UV collectors.