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Calcite

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Description
Locality: 
Risco Faneque, Agaete, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain
Class: 
Single Crystal
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.5 × 5.6 × 5.5 cm
Description

Single crystal of calcite with a rounded top. The lateral faces are not a prism, but a very steep rhombohedron of high Miller Indices. Scalenohedral faces are also present. The surface is partially covered by a second generation on microcrystalline calcite that gives the specimen a dull lustre.

Self-collected in November/2009.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Calcite

Polymorph of: 
Formula: 
CaCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.0
Streak: 
White

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