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Calcite On Agate Psm Aragonite

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Description
Locality: 
Juchem Quarry, Niederwörresbach, Herrstein, Birkenfeld, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
14 × 8 × 6.3 cm
Largest Crystal: 
3.20cm
Weight: 
495.00gr
Description

A 0.5 Kg Juchem sample richly exposing acute rhombohedral crystals of lustrous yellow calcite, that reach 32 mm in length, with curved faces and edges. They display intense yellow fluorescence under long UV, and yellow orange under short UV. The matrix is a cluster of radiated aragonite crystals replaced by laminated pink agate chalcedony.

Collected by Rigobert Platteau in one of the visits to Juchem between 1978-1995, with his handwritten label.

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Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Calcite

Polymorph of: 
Formula: 
CaCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.0
Streak: 
White

Agate

Variety Of: 

Chalcedony

Hardness: 
6.5 - 7.0
Formula: 
SiO2
Hardness: 
0.0

Aragonite

Polymorph of: 
Formula: 
CaCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.15
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Type Locality: 
Gallo river, Molina de Aragón, Guadalajara, Castile-La Mancha, Spain

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Belgium (Tracked)
7.50
NL, DE, FR, LU (Tracked)
11
EUROPE 1 . or 2 (Tracked)
14.16
CANADA (Tracked)
22
USA (NOT Tracked) . or USA (Tracked)
25
REST (Tracked)
25

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