Calcite
specimen number:
1831126
location:
Chihuahua, Mexico
description:
Beautiful colorless crystals of calcite rising off matrix. This is in good condition. At one time this was part of the collection of John Sint Kangas. His data card comes with the specimen and dates this piece to the late 1950s and early 1960s. This is brightly fluorescent under longwave ultraviolet light.
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