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PostPosted: Oct 24, 2012 12:52    Post subject: Calcite????  

I feel rather embarrassed to ask this question, as it reveals my limited knowledge of minerals, but here goes: Can anyone please tell me what this white mineral on the amethyst crystal is. If it is calcite then it has a very unusual appearance for Brandberg. I do not want to test it with acid or remove pieces as it is a nice specimen. Any thoughts would be welcome. I have not cleaned the specimen yet as I need to know what the white mineral is.


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PostPosted: Oct 24, 2012 14:20    Post subject: Re: Calcite????  

Hi Pierre!
Have you ever tried with chloridric acid? It might be chalcite or aragonite! If it doesn't react, it's even more interesting because you need other proofs.
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PostPosted: Oct 24, 2012 14:30    Post subject: Re: Calcite????  

I would think that a very small dab of HCl is certainly not going to harm the specimen, and then you'd know--if it was one of the carbonates. Opal or chalcedony could be another possibility--just the hardness, a tiny attempt to scratch with a needle or knife tip, would tell you that too. You might check if it fluoresces green, with shortwave UV--much chalcedony or opal "that looks like this" does so, and calcite, rarely green.
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PostPosted: Oct 25, 2012 02:09    Post subject: Re: Calcite????  

Thank you Riccardo and Pete. I will attempt to take a few photos with a microscope camera and do a few tests and share them with you. I have handled thousands of specimens from Brandberg and have never seen something like this. This pocket of amethyst also came out from a new area, as I have not seen similar amethyst from that area yet.
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PostPosted: Oct 25, 2012 07:23    Post subject: Re: Calcite????  

I tested the white mineral with pool acid. It fizzes. I took a few more photos with both a camera and a (rather inferior) microscope camera. I have a feeling that there are more than one mineral present, perhaps calcite and something else?


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PostPosted: Oct 25, 2012 08:29    Post subject: Re: Calcite????  

I think we are talking about calcite

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PostPosted: Oct 25, 2012 08:40    Post subject: Re: Calcite????  

James wrote:
I think we are talking about calcite

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Can you please elaborate? What makes you come to that conclusion?

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PostPosted: Oct 25, 2012 09:21    Post subject: Re: Calcite????  

Hi Pierre,

i agree with James: I know such white crustifications of calcite from Brandberg specimens, i've seen them several times at the back of amethyst specimens like yours.

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PostPosted: Oct 25, 2012 09:33    Post subject: Re: Calcite????  

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Hi Pierre,

i agree with James: I know such white crustifications of calcite from Brandberg specimens, i've seen them several times at the back of amethyst specimens like yours.

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I know calcite has probably the biggest variety of crystal systems, so I would not be surprised.

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PostPosted: Oct 25, 2012 10:14    Post subject: Re: Calcite????  

Though there's an enormous variety in shapes of calcite, some are distinctive if they appear in a certain locality. And this is, for sure, a "typical" calcite to appear on such an amethyst crystal from Brandberg area ...
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PostPosted: Oct 25, 2012 12:31    Post subject: Re: Calcite????  

Tobi wrote:
And this is, for sure, a "typical" calcite to appear on such an amethyst crystal from Brandberg area ...


Tobi, thanks for your comments, but on this I beg to differ. I have a number of Brandberg quartz crystal specimens with an assortment of crystal systems, but this type, I have never seen before. (I have handled thousands of Brandberg specimens) :-)

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PostPosted: Oct 25, 2012 13:09    Post subject: Re: Calcite????  

I think it is chalcedony, like this:

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PostPosted: Oct 25, 2012 13:42    Post subject: Re: Calcite????  

mihailovici79 wrote:
I think it is chalcedony, like this:

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not likely if it fizzes.
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PostPosted: Oct 25, 2012 14:14    Post subject: Re: Calcite????  

GneissWare wrote:
not likely if it fizzes.

Ah , sorry, my fault. You`re right
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PostPosted: Oct 25, 2012 15:36    Post subject: Re: Calcite????  

It is Calcite for sure
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PostPosted: Oct 26, 2012 03:50    Post subject: Re: Calcite????  

Jordi Fabre wrote:
It is Calcite for sure


Thanks Jordi. To clean the quartz crystal is nearly impossible now as I cannot use oxalic or pool acid. I will have to leave the specimen just as it is. The main feature is the unusual calcite.

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