Calcite
Ettringite with Calcite
$1,500.00 €1,339 £1,140.00 approx. This specimen is priced in US dollars, all other prices are approximate.
ID:
CC12302
A choice and highly aesthetic specimen with two hexagonal, acidic lemon-yellow Ettringite crystals to 1.7 and 1.8 cm long, perched either end of a well crystallised group of Calcite crystals. Ettringite is a hydrous calcium aluminium sulphate and the crystals on this miniature grade from translucent outer shells with a glassy to satin lustre, to inner, opaque pale lemon-white cores. The slightly longer crystal is not terminated whereas the smaller has one well terminated end. A classic Ettringite from the N'Chwaning mines at Kuruman in the Kalahari Manganese Field of Northern Cape Province, South Africa.