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Calcite with Fluorite$750.00
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A spectacular and rare nail-head Calcite of rich, translucent, honey-tan with minor pale-yellow Fluorite from Ladywash mine, close to the village of Eyam in Derbyshire. Eyam is known as The Plague Village, due to an outbreak of the disease in 1665. This beautiful village is famous for self-isolating for over fourteen months, so preventing the disease spreading, a practice unheard of in the seventeenth century, but familiar to us now following the Coronavirus pandemic. The primary Calcite crystal measures 6 x 4 x 2 cm and displays a near-perfect termination. Scalenohedral Calcite from Ladywash mine are common, but a nail-head termination such as this is most unusual for both this mine and this part of Derbyshire. This small cabinet specimen is ex. the J.A. Jones Collection and was collected in August 1974.
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SizeSmall Cabinet
Dimensions7.6 x 6.2 x 7.3 cm
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SKUCC17224
Listed on10/24/2024
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