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Identity HelpBanana Calcite?

11th Feb 2015 13:55 UTCryan christensen

Is this banana Calcite, is anyone familiar with the name and or a location. Thanks.

11th Feb 2015 16:52 UTCJamison K. Brizendine 🌟 Expert

I personally have never heard of the term "Banana Calcite"...I wonder if this is from the Brushy Creek Mine (http://www.mindat.org/loc-3865.html) ?

11th Feb 2015 16:56 UTCReiner Mielke Expert

It is if you want it to be.

11th Feb 2015 17:09 UTCryan christensen

I've seen these specimens sold over the years online and shows labeled as "banana Calcite", from a very unusual location, but now that I need to know that location I can't find another if my life depended on it!! I hoping a Calcite expert might weight in.

Thanks Reiner :)

11th Feb 2015 17:10 UTCryan christensen

I should mention its a large specimen 6 x 5 inch

11th Feb 2015 18:03 UTCJamison K. Brizendine 🌟 Expert

The only other locality that I can think of that has produced these similar "skunk/banana" calcites, besides Brushy Creek, is Daye County, Huangshi Prefecture, Hubei Province, China ( http://www.mindat.org/loc-22813.html) .

12th Feb 2015 08:48 UTCVolkmar Stingl

I found similar calcites on the construction site of Caidun tunnel #2 in Jianyang Co., Nanping Pref., Fujian Prov. China in the year 2012 (sorry for the bad picture).

12th Feb 2015 13:03 UTCChris Rayburn

Reiner Mielke Wrote:

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> It is if you want it to be.

Okay Reiner, that cracked me up!

12th Feb 2015 14:10 UTCSpencer Ivan Mather

I found the same type of calcite crystals in Cromford Derbyshire in 1992...

Spencer.

12th Feb 2015 16:35 UTCTimothy Greenland

I suspect the name is a confusion with the calcites from the Banana Slide fault at Haile Moor mine, Egremont, Cumbria - but the specimen does not resemble those even remotely... Nevertheless the name seems rather apposite - "if the cap fits, wear it"! I agree with RM here.

Cheers

Tim

PS, Spencer, I never saw anything like that from the Cromford area when I used to collect there in the 1960s. Whereabouts did you find them?

T

12th Feb 2015 18:41 UTCColin Robinson

Timothy Greenland Wrote:

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> I suspect the name is a confusion with the

> calcites from the Banana Slide fault at Haile Moor

> mine, Egremont, Cumbria - but the specimen does

> not resemble those even remotely... Nevertheless

> the name seems rather apposite - "if the cap fits,

> wear it"! I agree with RM here.

>

The 'banana slide' was at Beckermet mine not Haile Moor.

> T

12th Feb 2015 19:11 UTCTimothy Greenland

I believe you're right there Colin - I got confused by the minfind item: http://www.minfind.com/mineral-25894.html

Sorry about that

Tim

26th Sep 2016 05:58 UTCCory Cooper

i just acquired a piece myself and was wondering where its from and what it was the calcite is growing on? a psuedomorph?

26th Sep 2016 08:18 UTCErik Vercammen Expert

Calcite is a very ubiquitous minerals and it cristallises in a lot of forms, sometimes even in one deposit. So, it seems impossible to tell something about the locality your calcite comes from.

26th Sep 2016 12:51 UTCGerhard Brandstetter Expert

Ok - Banana Calcite does really exist!

I have seen the only specimen in Tucson Convention Center 2009.

Much fun with it!

28th Sep 2016 00:23 UTCGregg Little 🌟

I have dog tooth spar calcite and poker chip calcite and, oh ya, one that looks like a sea urchin with mesolite spines and voila ... sea urchin calcite. I think if we go much further down this path, we'll end up naming every shape, colour and habit like our lapidary comrade's and their fascination over agate and all its variants. Better "calcite after banana" than "Banana calcite" but all in all, I'll concede fun over sort of science.

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