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Calcite$12,500.00
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This remarkable larger cabinet-sized display Calcite is both a Cornish classic and a historically important piece too. Firstly, it is from Wheal Wrey in Liskeard District, Cornwall, famous amongst British Calcite occurrences for its distinctive elongated prism-like crystals, the larger ones of which are often twinned, and the smaller ones which are thin and needle-like in form. This particular specimen presents both, but in a sculptural arrangement with ledges, or widows, into the specimen, formed by what appears to be dissolution cavities, or casts of a long-since gone mineral coated in Quartz. The Calcite crystals have then grown inwards into these chambers. Minor Galena is seen within the Quartz. A delicate, outstanding and fascinating piece, and perhaps why it was owned by the famous Victorian polymath, John Ruskin, whose remaining collection is preserved at Brantwood, near Coniston, Cumbria.
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