Calcite

Description

Calcite - brown, stepped triangular crystals associated with platy hexagonal calcite crystals and coated with brewsterite and harmotome, from Strontian Main Vein, Clashgorm open cast workings, Strontian Main Vein, Argyll

Museum reference

G.1992.6.13

Collection

Natural Sciences

Object name

Calcite

Collection place(s)

Clashgorn open cast workings, Strontian Main Vein, Strontian, Argyll, Scotland, Northern Europe

Associations

Brewsterite, undifferentiated
Harmotome

On display

national museum of scotland »
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natural world, restless earth