Great South Gems & Minerals

• Calcite, Salmon-Orange •
(Canada)

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• Calcite, Salmon-Orange •
(Canada)

calcium carbonate - acmite - apatite - fluorite - nepheline syenite pegmatites - barite - albite - scapolite

A beautiful and most unusual calcite material coming out of Canada. The combination of the whitish/grayish and deep orange colors make for a striking mineral specimen. If this material wasn't so soft, (Hardness 3) this would make a great looking gemstone material.

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Calcite is a calcium carbonate. Calcite is the commonest of all carbonate minerals and develops in many kinds of environments. It occurs with acmite, apatite, and fluorite in nepheline syenite pegmatites; with barite, albite, and scapolite in carbonatites; with zeolites and prehnite in basalt of volcanic rocks; with gypsum in limestone and chemical and organic sedimentary rocks; with tremolite and wollastonite in hornfels of contact metamorphic rocks; with grossular, wollastonite, and diopside in hornfels and marble of regional metamorphic rocks; with bedenbergite and andradite in skarn of hydrothermal metamorphic rocks; with quartz, dolomite, and fluorite in hypothermal, mesothermal, and epithermal veins; and with cerussite, marcasite, and sphalerite in disseminated hydrothermal replacement deposits.

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