MANGANO CALCITE CRYSTAL CLUSTER

MANGANO CALCITE CRYSTAL CLUSTER

A top quality gemmy Mangano Calcite Crystal Cluster.  Featuring beautiful, perfect crystals that are extremely fluorescent under long wave UV light.  What a stunner, this specimen is a lovely pink in daylight and neon pink fluorescing under UV light.  If you only need one piece of this mineral, this would be an excellent choice.  Step your collection up a level with this super Bulgarian crystal.

This is a rare quality calcite crystal specimen.  We handle a lot of this popular mineral and this is the absolute best quality we have seen, only a few specimens of this grade are available to buy, so snap one up now!  Super collectable for your crystal, mineral, calcite or fluorescent specimen collection.  This beautiful cluster would make a knockout gift.  The very pink photos were taken under UVA light, peachy coloured pics with filtered UVA light and the other photos outside in the sun and shade.

Location:
Androvo Mine, Zlatograd, Bulgaria.

Dimensions:
12.9cm x 4.2cm x 3.3cm, 235g.

Mangano Calcite
(Ca,Mn)CO3

CaCO3
Calcium Carbonate

Calcite, which gets its name from “chalix” the Greek word for lime, is a most amazing and yet, most common mineral.  It is one of the most common minerals on the face of the Earth, comprising about 4% by weight of the Earth’s crust and is formed in many different geological environments.  Calcite can form rocks of considerable mass and constitutes a significant part of all three major rock classification types.  It forms oolitic, fossiliferous and massive limestones in sedimentary environments and even serves as the cements for many sandstones and shales.  Limestone becomes marble from the heat and pressure of metamorphic events.

With calcite so abundant and so widely distributed it is no wonder that it can be so varied.  The crystals of calcite can form literally a thousand different shapes.  By combining the basic forms of the positive rhombohedron, negative rhombohedron, steeply, moderately and slightly inclined rhombohedrons, various scalahedrons, prism and pinacoid to name a few of the more common forms.  There are more than 300 crystal forms identified in calcite and these forms can combine to produce the thousand different crystal variations.  Calcite also produces many twin varieties that are favorites among twin collectors.  There are also phantoms, included crystals, color varieties, pseudomorphs and unique associations.  There simply is no end to the varieties of calcite.

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