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Calcite, 8.6 cm, from Dalnegorsk, Kavalerovo Mining District, Primorskiy Kray, Far-Eastern Region, Russia. Purchased from The Sunnywood Collection.

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Species

CalciteAbout Calcite →

SizeSmall Cabinet

Dimensions8.6 cm

Added on02/13/2026

Locality

Russia, Primorsky Krai, DalnegorskRegional guide →

Publications

Mineralogical Record Mineral Collections In American Northeast page 151

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diverse shapes, colors, and optical quirks; widely available yet scarce elite pieces from Elmwood and Charcas drive collecting value and display.

Calcite

Calcite from Dalnegorsk, Russia

Dalnegorsk is one of those mineral names that experienced collectors read almost as a guarantee of sharp form, strong association, and geological complexity. Calcite from the district is not a single “look,” but a family of looks: water-clear trigonal prisms, pale honey to colorless scalenohedra, pink manganese-bearing crystals, flattened rhombohedral plates, nailhead forms, and complex multi-generation pieces in which one calcite habit overgrows another. The best examples have a crispness that feels almost engineered—bright faces, glassy transparency, and a habit vocabulary broad enough that two Dalnegorsk calcites can appear to have come from different countries.