Calcite with Pyrite
specimen number:
1652614
location:
El Hammam Mine, Meknes, Meknes-Tafilalet, Morocco
description:
An attractive cluster of white platy translucent lustrous calcite crystals. Minor pyrite is present. This is brightly fluorescent under longwave ultraviolet light. The previous label gives this locality in Morocco, I'm not so sure this piece is in from Romania.
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