Calcite
7400 JL1740 Chabazite, Calcite, Point Sambell, Phillip Island, Bass Coast Shire, Victoria
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1995 from Frank Robinson. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 64 images.
7399 JL1820 Calcite, Korumburra, South Gippsland Shire, Victoria
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996 from Frank Robinson.
7398 JL3692 Calcite, Iron Monarch open cut, Iron Knob, Middleback Range, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 2001 from a Tailgater at the Wagga Gemboree.
7354 JL3904 Gyrolite, Calcite, Fluorapophyllite, Mesolite, India
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 2002. Ex Ralph Segnit Collection.
7317 JL3486 Calcite, Mount Tamborine, Darlington Range, Scenic Rim Region, Queensland
Acquired by Joan Lamond at Tamborine Mountain in 1990.
7307 JL3176 Calcite, Jenolan Caves, Westmoreland Co., New South Wales
Five single crystals. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Ex Museum Victoria.
5719 Goethite replacing Pyrite, Stellerite, Calcite, Lake Cooper quarry, Corop, Campaspe Shire, Victoria
Interpenetrant slightly rounded pyrite cubes, some with truncated corners, altering to brown goethite with prismatic colourless striated prismatic stellerite crystals and minor white calcite crystals. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 50 images.
ncat WD102 Phillipsite, Calcite, Sunbury, Victoria
An unusual specimen. I am unaware of other zeolite specimens from Sunbury, although the basalt quarries do produce calcite and aragonite. This specimen also has what looks like calcite-coated prismatic augite crystals, unlike any other Victorian zeolite localities I have seen. Perhaps the most surprising aspect of this specimen is...
30111 Kutnohorite, Rhodochrosite, Calcite, N’Chwaning II Mine, N’Chwaning Mines, Kuruman, Kalahari manganese field, Northern Cape, South Africa
Pink drusy crystals of rhodochrosite coating acicular kutnohorite and white calcite that fluoresces red. 40x36x33mm.
30110 Pyromorphite, Cerussite, Calcite, Avondale Mine, Mount Lyndhurst station, North Flinders Ranges, Flinders Ranges, South Australia
Green hexagonal prisms of pyromorphite with off-white cerussite (orange fluorescence) and white calcite (white fluorescence). Specimen measures 60x50x32mm.
5691 Calcite, Mount Franklin, Hepburn Shire, Victoria
White agate-patterned calcite filling small vesicles in basalt. Width 5.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Collected 16/7/2020.
5689 Calcite, Chabazite, Mn Oxide, Aranga Quarry (Stone’s Quarry; Hood Road Quarry), Aranga, Kaipara District, Northland Region, North Island, New Zealand
Black manganese oxides on curved white calcite crystals and colourless pseudocubic chabazite crystals. Width 11mm. Stack of 100 images.
5169 JL1507 Chabazite, Phillipsite, Calcite, Old Melbourne Quarries, Victoria
Phacolite habit of chabazite. Brown ferroan calcite is fluorescent and phosphorescent. Width 11mm. Stack of 110 images. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Ex Museum Victoria.
9033 JP2319 Epidote, Calcite, Grossular, Loanhead Quarry, Beith, North Ayrshire, Scotland, UK
White hexagonal calcite crystals that fluoresce pink, green epidote and orange-brown grossular garnet. Width 4.5mm. Stack of 62 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
28002 VH34 Fluorite, Calcite, North Mine (North Broken Hill Mine; NBH Mine), Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales
Group of deep purple fluorite cubes with octahedral faces, with white calcite that fluoresces red. Width 9mm. Stack of 60 images. Ex Val Hannah Collection.
9086 JP2694 Cassiterite, Schorl, Calcite, Balleswidden Mine, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
Transparent brown to almost black prismatic cassiterite crystals with dark greenish schorl and yellow calcite. Width 6.5mm. Stack of 109 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
9007 JP2350 Aragonite, Calcite, Phillipsite-K, Chabazite-Ca, Trentham Falls, Trentham, Hepburn Shire, Victoria
Tiny crystals of calcite, phillipsite and chabazite on the sides of aragonite needles. Aragonite fluoresces white with a fading greenish afterglow. Photo width 9mm. Stack of 50 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
30101 Calcite, Kitty Miller Bay, Phillip Island, Bass Coast Shire, Victoria
Agate-patterned calcite, commonly called eye agates, are generally found loose on the eastern side of the bay. Video best viewed full screen.
5383 Calcite, Shimen Co., Changde Prefecture, Hunan Province, China
Butterfly twin. Pink fluorescence. Video best viewed full screen.
30089 Fluorapatite, Calcite, Liscombe Deposit, Monmouth Township, Haliburton County, Ontario, Canada
Fluorapatite crystal is repaired in three places. It is not fluorescent, but the glue used is. The calcite matrix fluoresces pink. Video best viewed full screen.
30088 Pyrite, Marcasite, Calcite, Nanisivik Mine, Nanisivik, Baffin Island, Canada
Pyrite after marcasite, with calcite and a second generation of pyrite. The calcite is fluorescent pink under longwave UV. Video best viewed full screen.
30087 Vanadinite, Calcite, Apache Mine, Radium, Burch area, Globe Hills, Gila Co., Arizona, USA
Mineralisation on all faces with no obvious point of contact so was probably a breccia. Some glue on one side. Video best viewed full screen.
20052 Wulfenite, Calcite, Jianshan Mine, Ruoqiang Co., Bayin’gholin Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang, China
Sharp orange wulfenite blades, some with a dusting of white calcite on one face. Video best viewed full screen.
20051 Dioptase, Calcite, Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Oshikoto Region, Namibia
Sharp green dioptase crystals on calcite. Ex Roger Colling Collection. Video best viewed full screen.
30079 Gmelinite, Calcite, Analcime, Hematite, Little Plains Quarry (Fieldwicks Quarry), Blue Tier district, Break O’Day municipality, Tasmania
A tiny calcite crystal is perched on hematite-coated gmelinite in a vugh of analcime. Collected when it was called Fieldwicks Quarry. Video best viewed full screen.
5210 Hemimorphite, Calcite, Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico
Old specimen of largish hemimorphite crystals partially coated by calcite crystals and glued to a glass base. Acquired from Crystal Habit. Ex J. Strange Collection. Video best viewed full screen.
Deaccessioned 30078 Calcite, Sphalerite, Chalcopyrite, Quartz, Fluorite, Bor Pit, Dal’negorsk B deposit, Dalnegorsk, Primorsky Krai, Russia
Tiny white calcite on yellowish calcite, chalcopyrite partially covered by sphalerite, and quartz and colourless fluorite. Video best viewed full screen.
30068 Barite, Dolomite, Pyrite, Calcite, Newfoundland Zinc Mine, Daniel’s Harbor, Newfoundland, Canada
Ex Barry Johnson Collection. Video best viewed full screen.
30067 Barite, Pyrite, Fluorite, Calcite, Level 4, El Solar Mine, Taxco de Alarcón, Mun. de Taxco, Guerrero, Mexico
Fluorite is white, only picked up under longwave UV. Tiny scalenohedral calcite crystals. Ex Barry Johnson Collection. Video best viewed full screen.
30061 Groutite, Calcite, Wessels Mine, Hotazel, Kalahari manganese field, Northern Cape, South Africa
Black groutite on an unknown brown stalactitic mineral with calcite that fluoresces red. Ex Barry Johnson Collection.
20047 Calcite, Quartz, Pachapaqui mining district, Bolognesi Province, Áncash, Peru
White spiky balls of calcite on quartz. Fluorescent pink.
20042 Alabandite, Uchucchacua Mine, Oyon Province, Lima, Peru
Sharp octahedral grey crystals of alabandite in a matrix of fluorite and calcite, both of which fluoresce (blue and pink respectively). [private role=”administrator”]US$14.99[/private]
20038 Calcite, Pyrite, Marcasite, Conco Mine, North Aurora, Kane Co., Illinois, USA
Inclusions of pyrite and marcasite. From the Wise Lake Formation. Ex Jared Freiburg, Saga Minerals. Acquired at Tucson in 2011. And here is Jared with one of his cases in 2011 at the Hotel Tucson City Center (aka Innsuites), and a close up of my specimen’s big brother!
20035 Stilbite, Bitumen, Apophyllite, Laumontite, Calcite, Unknown, Russell Hard Quarry (8646), Russell River, Lonnavale, Tasmania
Colourless stilbite crystals on black bitumen. Laumontite intermingled with bitumen. Apophyllite (in second photo) and unknown hexagonal or pseudohexagonal (in main photo) crystals in another cavity. Maybe just apophyllite? Photo width 3.25mm. The calcite is fluorescent.
10063 Calcite, Quartz, Dal’negorsk (Dalnegorsk; Tetyukhe; Tjetjuche; Tetjuche), Kavalerovo Mining District, Primorskiy Kray, Far-Eastern Region, Russia
Cream flattened calcite crystals on tapering quartz crystals. [private role=”administrator”]Purchased at Keystone, priced at $250.[/private]
10081 Grape Agate, Calcite, Mamuju area, Sulawesi Barat Province, Sulawesi, Indonesia
Lustrous purple “Grape Agate” with colourless-white calcite crystals, 60mm wide. From Joe George, aka The Scepter Guy, cascadescepters.com.
ncat JL3692 Calcite, Iron Monarch, South Australia
Acquired by Joan Lamond at the 2001 Wagga Gemboree from a tailgater.
7280 JL1448 Goethite, Calcite, Colemans Quarry, Holwell, Somerset, England
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996 from Harry Critchley.
ncat M901 Calcite, Chabazite-Na, Bundoora, Victoria
Ex Bernie Day specimen.