Calcite
specimen number:
4751032
location:
Bigrigg mine, Bigrigg, Egremont, Copeland, Cumbria, England, UK
description:
A wonderful grouping of glassy gemmy calcite crystals with little attached matrix. The quality is outstanding. This comes with a large number of previous labels as seen at the end of the video. At one time this was part of the famous collection of Irenee Dupont at the University of Delaware. It was exchanged out in 1978. The specimen was figured in the magazine Rocks and Minerals, volume 95, page 244, figure 25.
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