Calcite

Malachite-included Calcite is an iconic association for the famous Bisbee mines, in Warren District, Cochise County, Arizona, but most specimens were extracted way back in the early years of mining, particularly in the Southwest mine, and are rarely seen for sale now. This very colourful and quite large (small cabinet size) specimen displays a nice balance between pale cream coloured transparent crystallized Calcite in a bed upon reddish matrix, with its central part (and a small area at one end) brightly coloured by green Malachite inclusions and some Malachite extending out above the Calcite as a mossy textured growth. There is some slight bruising to a few of the Calcite crystals around the main Malachite-bearing vug, but the colours really stand out on this Bisbee classic and draw ones eye far more than the slight imperfections to the Calcite. A true Arizonan classic. Ex Edna D. Doughty Collection, no. 1621 after which it was purchased by another owner from R. Hauck in 1970.