Calcite, Quartz
Wapping Mine, Matlock Bath, Derbyshire Dales District, Derbyshire, England, UK
7.0 x 4.8 x 4.3 cm. Mineral specimens are rare from this old extinct Pb-Zn-Baryte-Fluorite mine in Derbyshire, especially rich and showy calcite specimens, such as this exceptional example. Glassy, translucent, oxide-tinted scalenohedrons are strikingly festooned, jackstraw-style on the quartz matrix. The impressive, large, well-placed, doubly ...
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