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Calcite (Var: Manganoan Calcite)

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This mesmerizing, complete-all-around specimen is composed of dozens of disc-shaped calcite crystals arranged into a pagoda-like structure with stalks shooting out in either direction. It is complete all around save for the very bottom which acts as a natrual base for display and is quite distinct from previous finds at this mine. In person, it has a pleasing pale pink/mauvre hue to it. 12 x 8.5 x 8 cm

Product details

SpeciesCalcite
SizeCabinet
Dimensions12.0 x 8.5 x 8.0 cm
Added on10/23/2024
LocalityChina, Hunan, Yaogangxian Mine

Known provenance

DateCollectorAcquisition price
08/2024Unknown OwnerNot disclosed
—The ArkenstoneNot disclosed

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Calcite
Mineral guide
Learn about Calcite
diverse shapes, colors, and optical quirks; widely available yet scarce elite pieces from Elmwood and Charcas drive collecting value and display.
Calcite
Regional guide
Calcite from Yaogangxian Mine, China
from the Yaogangxian Mine is not merely an accessory carbonate on famous Chinese fluorites; at its best it is one of the visual signatures of the locality. Collectors most often encounter it as crisp white to pale pink “poker-chip” aggregates, bladed rosettes, stacked pagoda-like sprays, steep scalenohedra, or flattened rhombohedral groups perched on fluorite, quartz, ferberite, scheelite, muscovite, pyrite, chalcopyrite, and other Yaogangxian species. The appeal lies in contrast: delicate, pearly calcite set against glassy purple or blue-green fluorite; pink manganese-bearing calcite on sparkling quartz; or a single water-clear calcite twin rising from metallic black ferberite.