Calcite

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This is an outstanding and somewhat bizarre example of calcite from the trap rocks of India. An almost pristine, 7.0 cm tall, lustrous, transparent, colorless, calcite crystal is on a matrix of basalt. The rhombohedral calcite crystal has inclusions of chalcedony?, and exhibits preferentially etched modifying faces. It looks as if it is about to ooze off its stalk, like melting ice cream. In person, its MUCH BETTER and very, very bizarre and unusual!