Calcite

specimen number:
3651641

location:
US Lime Company Quarry, Marble City, Sequoyah Co., Oklahoma, USA

description:
Very good specimen from a locality rarely seen available on the market today. Semi lustrous to lustrous large rhombohedral colorless partly transparent calcite crystals in a twinned grouping 10.5 cm in height set aesthetically on matrix. This is in very good condition. Previous label gives the locality as the Tri-State District in Picher, Oklahoma. That is a common misattribution for these specimens collected in the late 1960s. I believe that many specimens from this locality were sold from the rock shops in the Tri-State District at the time, so people assumed that the specimens came from the local mines.

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