| AllMinerals/JohnBetts-FineMinerals > Online Mineral Museum Photographic Archive > Minerals from China > Calcite with minor Hematite |
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| DESCRIPTION: | No. 73807 |
| Mineral: | Calcite with minor Hematite |
| Locality: | Leiping Mine, Guiyang, Hunan, China |
| Description: | Flat cluster of many lustrous transparent colorless calcite crystals with microscopic hematite inclusions that give the calcite crystals a pink color. The calcite crystals are elongated scalenohedral form with triangular (3-sided) cross-section. Collected ca. 1999 |
| Overall Size: | 6.5x5.5x3 cm |
| Crystals: | 4-32 mm |
| Archived: | For reference only |
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