Calcite

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Calcite from Verkhniy has come out for a decade or more now, in a bewildering variety of shapes and forms. This piece, though, always stood out to my eye as unusual. It is a complex intergrown twin with crystals seemingly forming an olde English-style heart twin at top and bottom, yet both attached to the same central crystal! The piece is a complete floater, and is as pristine as you can rationally wish for.The end tips show a subtle, finely articulated complex network of veins running to a common termination at each end. From the well-known Eric Asselborn collection, sold to me for my own personal calcite collection in 2006 and kept since then. Joe Budd photos