Detailed information
Dimensions
88 x 90 x 46
mm
Weight
190 g
Locality
Buick Mine Bixby, Iron County Missouri, USA
Condition
No recorded repairs
Specimens seldom come our way from the Buick mine at Bixby in Iron County, Missouri, USA and it is great to be able to offer this fine and well-priced golden Calcite on Quartz. This large mine works a Pb-Zn-Ag-Cu-Co-Ni-Cd polymetallic deposit and has been operating since its discovery in 1960. Two almost identical, tall and elegant scalenohedral Calcite crystals rise vertically and in parallel side-by-side from an irregular, massive Calcite matrix coated in tiny milky Quartz crystals. The Calcite crystals measure 6.5 and 7 cm tall and are a translucent golden yellow becoming gradually paler towards their terminations. An excellent cabinet specimen of Calcite from Buick mine, Missouri.
