Calcite
specimen number:
7992090
location:
Mid-Continent mine, Treece, Tri-State district, Kansas, USA
description:
Classic midwest United States specimen with lustrous golden almost gemmy crystals of calcite measuring to 5.0 cm in size on matrix with minor galena. Some cleaving is present, this pointed out in the video. Still very nice. This would have been collected in the 1960s.
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