Calcite

specimen number:
9731005

location:
Elmwood Mine, Smith Co., Tennessee, USA

description:
Outstanding aesthetic glassy gem quality absolutely perfect amber colored scalenohedral crystal of calcite coming off of a thin breccia matrix with several much smaller twinned crystals. Complete all around, in excellent condition. The quality is outstanding. The specimen comes with a custom acrylic display base.

The Elmwood complex, comprising primarily of the Elmwood, Gordonsville, and Cumberland Mines, in Smith County, Tennessee, is situated within Paleozoic carbonate rock formations where mineralizing hydrothermal brines circulated through ancient, open solution cavities, faults, and breccia zones. Originally developed for industrial underground mining starting in the 1970s, the facility gained global renown among mineral collectors because miners recovered world-class crystal specimens from vugs and cavities intersected during operations. While the complex has experienced intermittent commercial closures and changes in corporate ownership over the decades, it remains a legendary locality celebrated for producing some of the finest aesthetic mineral crystals ever discovered.

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