Calcite


Calcite crystals from Klichka, Transbaikal


Calcite from Dalnegorsk

 


Typical Calcite pseudomorph after Ikanite from Olenitsa at the White Sea coast of Kola.


Nice Calcite crystals from the lesser known Magnitogorsk skarn in the
Yuzhnyi Ural


Calcite from the 'Nickel mine" Adygea. Note the phantom layer of pyrite crystals


Blue Calcite from Slyudyanka


Crystal clear optical grade Icelandic spar from Nadym, Evenkia


Calcite from Baritovy pass in the Great Caucasus.


Calcite crystals in cavities of the Flysch of Skala Parus, western Caucasus.


Dogtooth Calcite from a roadcut south of Psebai, Caucaus. It occurs in a cavity in mesozoic limestone.


A rather ugly calcite from an interesting place, Longyearbyen mine at Spitzbergen. OK if you want to split hairs, this is a Norwegian mine,
But I thought it is the same geology as in the Nearby Russian mines and Spitzbergen material is not all to common.
 

[all photo's and collection: Maurice de Graaf]