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Pyrrhotite

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A delightful small miniature of silky bronze-golden Pyrrhotite crystals forming a 3.7 cm wide, half-hexagonal stack of very thin plates, with concentrically developed hexagonal inner plates diminishing towards the outer-centre. The specimen is equally displayable from either side, one of which has about six lenticular milky Calcite crystals growing outwards like bracket-fungus from a tree. From the famous mineral deposits at Dal'negorsk in Primorsky Krai, in the Far Eastern Region of Russia, a quite gorgeous specimen whose delicate and spectacular terminations remain completely undamaged.

Product details

Species
Calcite, PyrrhotiteAbout Calcite →
SizeMiniature
Dimensions4.3 x 2.6 x 2.3 cm
Listed on10/24/2024
Locality
Russia, Primorsky Krai, DalnegorskRegional guide →
SKUCC19409

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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.