AllMinerals/JohnBetts-FineMinerals > Online Mineral Museum Photographic Archive > Minerals from Missouri > Calcite on Dolomite with Chalcopyrite |
DESCRIPTION: | No. 61918 |
Mineral: | Calcite on Dolomite with Chalcopyrite |
Locality: | Sweetwater Mine, Viburnum Trend, Reynolds County, Missouri |
Description: | Lustrous transparent yellow calcite crystals to 38 mm long on gray limestone with pale-gray dolomite crystals to 1 mm. The calcite crystals are prismatic hexagonal form with rhombohedral termination faces, commonly labeled as nail-head calcite. |
Overall Size: | 6.5x4x4 cm |
Crystals: | 0.5-38.0 mm |
Archived: | For reference only |
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