Calcite
$175.00
Out of stock
Thjis piece was purchased in 2001 and has the Mary and Gardner Miller label. What attracted me to the piece was the gradation of color from pale, nearly colorless to a rich honey. The calcites formed in radial aggregates of small scelenohedrons (called kanonenspat), climbing(or decending) the knob of matrix. Save for a very small area at the back from contact, there is no damage. The luster is wonderful in hand as you slowly turn the piece. The mine was a lead-zinc producer in the late 1800’s and closed in 1983. Many of the better specimens went through the Trieble collection and then the M&G Miller collection, of which Victor Yount chose a goodly number.
Locality: Karoly Mine, Matra Mountains, Gyongyosoroszi, Hungary
Composition: calcium carbonate
