Mineral: Calcite
Locality: St. Andreasberg, St. Andreasberg mining area, Goslar District, Harz, Lower Saxony/Niedersachsen, Germany
Dimensions: 8.4 × 5.2 × 5.4 cm

Description: A classic. Divergent growths, on matrix, of prismatic Calcite crystals with pinacoidal terminations, with very sharp edges, bright and transparent. The sample is from the Stoppani collection. As is the case with so many specimens in this collection, the sample is of great quality for the locality. The sample has been noted and photographed in the monograph ‘St. Andreasberg’ of the Mineralogical Record magazine (May-June 2017, pg. 348)

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