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Calcite from India, locality help
Posted by Andrea Sansoni
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Calcite from India, locality help June 25, 2012 01:02PM |
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Registered: 2 years ago Posts: 37 |
I bought this calcite online, and I just received it in the mail. The piece comes from an old collection and the alleged locality on the card is Nasik but I suspect the piece is not from Nasik. The matrix is the classic green/gray basalt, covered with layers of tiny quartz, gyrolite balls and what maybe prehnite rosettes. There are also a few small brown calcites lurking under the prehenite/gyrolite layers. The calcite crystal is a twinned rhombohedron, about 4x3x3 cm, it is very gemmy and colorless, no brown parts or phantoms inside, and it sits on top of the prehnite, with a few gyrolites on it.
The combination and layering of minerals seem to match that of the quarries near Bombay described in the Indian Zeolites issue of Min. Rec., but I am not sure: according to that reference calcites from Bombay have a brown core, and this one does not, so I ask for confirmation or advice here. I have attached a few photos but the specimen can also be viewed in video here: [www.youtube.com]
The combination and layering of minerals seem to match that of the quarries near Bombay described in the Indian Zeolites issue of Min. Rec., but I am not sure: according to that reference calcites from Bombay have a brown core, and this one does not, so I ask for confirmation or advice here. I have attached a few photos but the specimen can also be viewed in video here: [www.youtube.com]
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Re: Calcite from India, locality help June 25, 2012 06:54PM |
Registered: 7 years ago Posts: 8,477 |
The specimen is very distinctive and certainly from Malad, Ward 38, Mumbai (Bombay), Mumbai District (Bombay District), Maharashtra, India
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Hope this helps.
Rock Currier
Crystals not pistols.
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Hope this helps.
Rock Currier
Crystals not pistols.
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Re: Calcite from India, locality help June 26, 2012 02:52AM |
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Registered: 6 years ago Posts: 1,156 |
I agree with Rock. Not all the calcites from there have brown cores. I have one that is cloudy but no cores. Yours is exceptionally gemmy. Nice specimen.
regards,
stephanie
The dark spots are reflections from the matrix.
regards,
stephanie
The dark spots are reflections from the matrix.
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Re: Calcite from India, locality help June 26, 2012 09:37AM |
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Registered: 2 years ago Posts: 37 |
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