TABULAR CALCITE CLUSTER

TABULAR CALCITE CLUSTER

A beautiful Tabular Calcite Cluster, matrix free and with amazing crystals.  This is a fine cluster showing one of the less usual formations that calcite appears in.  Aesthetic, collectable and hard to find in nice clean clusters like this.  Calcite comes in an incredible range of crystal formations and colours.  This specimen will be a great addition to any mineral or crystal collection.  Particularly for the collector interested in crystal form and minerals with many variations.

Location:
Mine No. 884 Mine, Chenzhou, Hunan, China.

Dimensions:
8cm x 6cm x 2.7cm, 109g.

Calcite: CaCO3, Calcium Carbonate.

Calcite gets its name from “chalix” the Greek word for lime.  It is a most amazing and yet, most common mineral.  Calcite comprises about 4% by weight of the Earth’s crust.  It forms 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.  Interestingly Limestone becomes marble from the heat and pressure of metamorphic events.  The crystals of calcite can form many different shapes.  The positive rhombohedron, negative rhombohedron, steeply, moderately and slightly inclined rhombohedrons, various scalahedrons, prism and pinacoid.

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