Locality type: | Mine |
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Species: | Calcite |
Formula: | CaCO3 |
Habit: | Scalenohedrons |
Colour: | Delecate violet to wine yellow, often showing within a deeper yellow or violet light |
Quality for species: | Excellent - world class for species or very significant. (!!) |
Abundance at site: | Common |
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Validity: | Believed Valid |
Data |
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Mineral Data: | Click here to view Calcite data |
Locality Data: | Click here to view Blakie No. 2 mine, Joplin Field, Jasper County, Missouri, USA |
Data Identifiers |
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Mindat Occurrence Record ID: | 625252 |
Long-form Identifier: | 1:3:625252:6 |
GUID (UUID V4): | c7f60a5f-c6bb-4384-8d63-4e437d139dab |
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| | Journal (issue) | FROM GIRGEUTI, SICILY. Remarkable museum specimen. 2% feet high, I foot across at the base and 1% feet...twinned crystals are from 1 to 2 inches in diameter. 2. SPHALERITE FROM JOPLIN, MO. \Vith tetrahedral crystals...1902. No, I? CRYSTAL FORMS OF CALCITE FRQMw BY DR. OLIVER C. HARRINGTON, LARGE crystals of calcite from...from Joplin,‘Mo., have beenknown for some years to collectors“ and have become widely distributed in collections;...occurrence of calcite in Missouri, are to found on pp. 457-9 of Vol. VII, of_ the Reports oi the Missouri GeolOgicall |
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