Calcite, Hematite

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An old-time, classic, cabinet specimen from the famous iron mines of Egremont, England. Stout, glassy, transparent, colorless to hematite-tinted pink calcite scalenohedrons richly and aesthetically cover the mounded matrix of hematite ore on this fine piece. The calcite crystals are up to 3.3 cm long and have unusual, modified, three-sided, pyramidal, terminations. This is a very fine large example of this important calcite varietal from this historic locale. Probably 100 years old or older.