Mineral: Calcite
Locality: Leiping Mine, Leiping, Guiyang, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province, China
Dimensions: 4.6 x 8.5 cm

Description: Two generations of calcite. The first composed of honey-colored scalenohedrons overgrown with lustrous flattened calcite rhombs to 3.0 cm across, the rims of which are tinted gray presumably from included sulfides.

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