Calcite
specimen number:
2102094
location:
Minerva Mine #1, Hardin Co., Illinois, USA
description: The Minerva Mine No. 1 in Hardin County, Illinois, was part of the Illinois Kentucky Fluorspar District and was worked mainly during the mid 20th century for fluorite, along with lead and zinc. The deposit consists of mineralized veins in limestone that produced a wide range of mineral species.
An attractive spray of crystallized calcite coming off matrix. Typical of these slight cleaving present on some of the terminations. Still very good.
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