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Calcite with Dolomite

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A beautiful delicate bubble-gum pink group of fine Calcite crystals dusted with a preferential light coating of snow-white Dolomite crystals. The Calcite forms multi-tiered scalenohedral crystals to around 6 cm tall with fabulous rugged stepped prism faces. A quite gorgeous cabinet display specimen form Dal'negorsk in Primorskiy Kray, Russia.

Product details

Species
Calcite, DolomiteAbout Calcite →
SizeCabinet
Dimensions11.8 x 7.5 x 7.0 cm
Listed on10/24/2024
Locality
Russia, Primorsky Krai, DalnegorskRegional guide →
SKUCC20226

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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 Dalnegorsk, Russia
Dalnegorsk is one of those mineral names that experienced collectors read almost as a guarantee of sharp form, strong association, and geological complexity. Calcite from the district is not a single “look,” but a family of looks: water-clear trigonal prisms, pale honey to colorless scalenohedra, pink manganese-bearing crystals, flattened rhombohedral plates, nailhead forms, and complex multi-generation pieces in which one calcite habit overgrows another. The best examples have a crispness that feels almost engineered—bright faces, glassy transparency, and a habit vocabulary broad enough that two Dalnegorsk calcites can appear to have come from different countries.