Calcite (Var: Iron-bearing Calcite)
Cavnic Mine, Cavnic, Maramureș County, Romania
Very rare specimen from Cavnic, mined between 70-71s and only then, in one place. Cavnic old miners have called "Cavnicit" and so the name remains now. Specimen show two different forms of Calcite, well covered a Quartz matrix: first is brown rhombohedrons crystals, to 3-4 mm, the second form is radial growths of fine scalenohedral Calcite, ...
© Nicu Pascanu