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Apophyllite, Calcite : CaCO3 | |
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2nd Sovietskii Mine (2nd Sovietskiy Mine), Dal'negorsk (Dalnegorsk; Tetyukhe; Tjetjuche; Tetjuche), Primorskiy Kray, Far-Eastern Region, Russia 10.5 x 7.5 x 4.5 cm. What you have is poker-chip calcites (to 4 cm) which are covered with small, sparkling crystals of apophyllite. The apophyllites also are lighting up the surrounding matrix, with a dove-grey color coming through from the underlying (unidentified) mineral, which creates a wonderful contrast with the calcites. |
| © Rob Lavinsky | Photo ID: 169981 View Count: 88 |
Apophyllite, Calcite : CaCO3 | |
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2nd Sovietskii Mine (2nd Sovietskiy Mine), Dal'negorsk (Dalnegorsk; Tetyukhe; Tjetjuche; Tetjuche), Primorskiy Kray, Far-Eastern Region, Russia 8.5 x 6.5 x 3 cm. What you have is poker-chip calcites (to 3 cm) which are covered with small, sparkling crystals of apophyllite. The apophyllites also are also lighting up the surrounding matrix, with a dove-grey color coming through from the underlying (unidentified) mineral, which creates a wonderful contrast with the calcites. |
| © Rob Lavinsky | Photo ID: 169982 View Count: 57 |
Apophyllite, Calcite : CaCO3 | |
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2nd Sovietskii Mine (2nd Sovietskiy Mine), Dal'negorsk (Dalnegorsk; Tetyukhe; Tjetjuche; Tetjuche), Primorskiy Kray, Far-Eastern Region, Russia 7.5 x 4 x 3 cm. What you have is poker-chip calcites (to 4 cm) which are covered with small, sparkling crystals of apophyllite. The apophyllites also are lighting up the surrounding matrix, with a dove-grey color coming through from the underlying (unidentified) mineral, which creates a wonderful contrast with the calcites. |
| © Rob Lavinsky | Photo ID: 169983 View Count: 49 |
Calcite : CaCO3, Ilvaite : CaFe2+2Fe3+[O|OH|Si2O7] | |
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2nd Sovietskii Mine (2nd Sovietskiy Mine), Dal'negorsk (Dalnegorsk; Tetyukhe; Tjetjuche; Tetjuche), Primorskiy Kray, Far-Eastern Region, Russia A scalenohedron comprised of stacked lenticulated rhombic crystals on a single blade of ilvaite. 3.8cm X 3.3cm X 1.8cm |
| © Geoffrey Krasnov | Photo ID: 92265 View Count: 107 |
Calcite : CaCO3 | |
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2nd Sovietskii Mine (2nd Sovietskiy Mine), Dal'negorsk (Dalnegorsk; Tetyukhe; Tjetjuche; Tetjuche), Primorskiy Kray, Far-Eastern Region, Russia Classically proportioned rhombohedron with minor pyrite. 6cm X 4cm X 5cm |
| © Geoffrey Krasnov | Photo ID: 88718 View Count: 123 |
Calcite : CaCO3, Sphalerite : (Zn,Fe2+)S | |
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2nd Sovietskii Mine (2nd Sovietskiy Mine), Dal'negorsk (Dalnegorsk; Tetyukhe; Tjetjuche; Tetjuche), Primorskiy Kray, Far-Eastern Region, Russia A gorgeous combination cabinet piece consisting of pale pink flattened rhombohedral crystals of calcite to 2 cm in size draped attractively about a matrix of black lustrous crystalline sphalerite. This is very clean of damage; I cannot find any chipping even with my 10x loupe. The crystals are nicely arranged and contrast nicely upon the black ... |
| © Dan Weinrich | Photo ID: 132823 View Count: 105 |
Calcite : CaCO3 | |
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2nd Sovietskii Mine (2nd Sovietskiy Mine), Dal'negorsk (Dalnegorsk; Tetyukhe; Tjetjuche; Tetjuche), Primorskiy Kray, Far-Eastern Region, Russia 6.4 x 4 x 3 cm. This is a VERY unusual Dal’negorsk calcite, due to the extremely uncommon tabular form of the two main “rabbit-ear” crystals (3 cm). The pocket conditions must have been bizarre, because at the feet of these crystals are several crystals that are almost opposite in form: extremely truncated, fat and stumpy, far wider than ... |
| © Rob Lavinsky | Photo ID: 170081 View Count: 78 |
Calcite : CaCO3, Quartz : SiO2, Ilvaite : CaFe2+2Fe3+[O|OH|Si2O7], Hematite : Fe2O3 | |
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2nd Sovietskii Mine (2nd Sovietskiy Mine), Dal'negorsk (Dalnegorsk; Tetyukhe; Tjetjuche; Tetjuche), Primorskiy Kray, Far-Eastern Region, Russia Lustrous, colorless calcite crystals up to 4 cm covering one side of a floater formation (fully crystallized all surfaces with no point of attachment) with gray quartz crystals up to 2 cm and small crystals of ilvaite and hematite. No damage. Overall size of mineral specimen: 8x8x6.5 cm. Size of individual crystals: 1-40 mm. |
| © 2003 John H. Betts | Photo ID: 8482 View Count: 325 |
Calcite : CaCO3 | |
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2nd Sovietskii Mine (2nd Sovietskiy Mine), Dal'negorsk (Dalnegorsk; Tetyukhe; Tjetjuche; Tetjuche), Primorskiy Kray, Far-Eastern Region, Russia An intricate, complex, twinned calcite crystal that is nearly a complete floater, with just a small attachment in the bottom -rear. The symmetry and patterning, in person, is really mesmerizing and this is unlike anything I have yet seen from Dalnegorsk! MUCH BETTER IN PERSON. I know it LOOKS curvy and cockeyed atop, but that is a visual illusion ... |
| © Rob Lavinsky | Photo ID: 41726 View Count: 222 |
Calcite : CaCO3 | |
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2nd Sovietskii Mine (2nd Sovietskiy Mine), Dal'negorsk (Dalnegorsk; Tetyukhe; Tjetjuche; Tetjuche), Primorskiy Kray, Far-Eastern Region, Russia A very unusual specimen consisting of black rhombohedrons forming an arboreal arrangement with second generation hexagonal prismatic crystals with pinicoid terminations. The coloration is caused by inclusion of an unknown mineral.7cm X 3.5cm X 3cm |
| © Geoffrey Krasnov | Photo ID: 88488 View Count: 103 |
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