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Calcite with Pyrrhotite from Dalnegorsk, Primorskiy Kray, Russia

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DESCRIPTION:	No. 77002
Mineral:	Calcite with Pyrrhotite
Locality:	Dalnegorsk, Primorskiy Kray, Russia
Description:	Lustrous transparent colorless calcite crystals to 16 mm in parallel orientation over early calcite micro crystals with brown-metallic pyrrhotite crystals to 3 mm. The large calcite crystals are rhombohedral form, with secondary edge faces. Collected ca. 1993. Fluoresces pink-white under longwave and shortwave UV illumination
Overall Size:	5.5x3.5x3.5 cm
Crystals:	micro to 16 mm
Archived:	For reference only

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