Description: Calcite
Rhisnes, Namur, Namur Province, Belgium
2 x 2 cm aprox.
Calcite with handwritten label and indexed faces by Dr. Giuseppe Cesàro (1849-1939), Professor of Crystallography and Mineralogy, University of Liege, who first described the fraipontite. Buttgenbach & Gillet honored him by naming cesarolite a new discovered species.
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