Name: Calcite
Brand: The Arkenstone
Price: 2750 USD
Availability: InStock

Updated 3d ago

Calcite

Unless you had a label, you wouldn't expect this Calcite to be from the USA as opposed to England. This crystal is the largest and best I have seen from this locality. Sitting on a bit of matrix is a glorious, tapered, glassy and gemmy, colorless Calcite crystal of high quality. I have followed this discovery since I was a kid in the Midwest and I was only able to obtain a single thumbnail specimen from this infamous pocket when it was collected in the mid-1980s. They were legendary in the Midwest in the 1980s. I think I paid $40 for a 1 cm crystal then! I have only ever seen four of them for sale, and there is a great one in the Seaman Museum. These are the only sharp, gemmy scalenohedrons found in the modern era in this old district and it seems a freak find of just this one small pocket. One side exhibits a most visual and eye-pleasing effect, where two faces have formed a subtle hourglass figure. This is surely one of the nicest upper-Michigan Calcites, even though there is a tiny cleave at the termination (which could be filled and restored). But considering its rarity, I can accept that and this piece had a place of honor in my old personal collection of Calcite which I built from childhood starting from 1985 and going until 2003 when I started collecting only Chinese minerals personally. This was one of the most expensive Calcite specimens I ever bought at the time and it's just gorgeous!

$2,750.00