Calcite

$7,500.00

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A beautiful and classic cabinet specimen of gemmy, colourless terminated Calcite crystals which grade to translucent white lower in the prisms. From the well-known Pallaflat mine, adjacent to the small mining village of Bigrigg in west Cumbria, England, these truly magnificent Calcite crystals form a spectacular group of variously orientated prismatic crystals measuring to 4.6 cm, covering a thin matrix of red-brown, botryoidal Hematite with minor yellowish Goethite. The Pallaflat mine began operating in the early 1880s and worked through to 1914. Pallaflat is world famous for its Calcite specimens, having produced some of the best in the world. This is a true west Cumbrian classic worthy of the best Museum collections and is accompanied with an old Anton Berger (Mödling bei Wien) printed/typed label. Interestingly (or perhaps more amusingly) labelled ‘Pallaflat, Cornwall, England’. It’s easy to snigger, but if unfamiliar with English geography, it was easy to confuse Cornwall with Cumberland, the former county name for parts of what is now Cumbria.