Calcite

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I believe this is the finest of these rare and unusual calcites for outright quality, in this update. The large crystal, 7.25 cm across, is extremely thin compared to its length and more gracile than others above. It is mostly a ghostly white color on the two basal hexagonal terminations which frame glassy and gemmy, colorless, short prismatic faces between them like an Oreo sandwich. In addition, this magnificent large crystal is wreathed by many smaller white calcite crystals with no well-formed spacing between the flat sides (i.e. truncated prism faces), like sharp flat discs setting off the fatter crystal in their midst, all of which makes the specimen more elegant as a whole.