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RM463   Calcite, butterfly twin

José María Patoni (Menores de Arriba), San Juan del Río, Durango, México

An excellent sample of a calcite showing a marked butterfly twin. Two twinned crystals in the same sample. Good transparence and very aerial disposed. This calcite comes from the deposits of optical calcite of José María Patoni. These mining works are famous worldwide for the purity, transparence and crystallographic complexity of its calcite crystals. Nice miniature.


Size: 4,0 x 3,3 x 1,6 cm.
Main crystal: 23 x 14 mm.
Found in 2004

Fluorescent under long wave UV
 
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