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English: Calcite
Locality: Elmwood mine, Carthage, Central Tennessee Ba-F-Pb-Zn District, Smith County, Tennessee, USA (Locality at mindat.org)
Size: cabinet, 14 x 7.5 x 5.8 cm
Calcite (Twinned)
After the closing of the Elmwood Mine a few years back (around 2004), the supply of good specimens quite predictably dried up quickly on the market. The Elmwood was of course best known for its purple fluorites and these stunning, gemmy, golden twinned crystals of calcite. Throughout the mining there, the larger of these calcites usually tended to be banged up on the tips, for whatever reason. What makes this very big crystal so good, in addition to the fine clarity and glassy luster, is that the terminations have only the slightest few bits of hardly eye-visible edge-wear � negligible in the context of the size of the specimen. It has intense color and very good gemminess as well. The other thing that makes this crystal remarkable is the magnificent multiple sub-terminations at one end � a dozen of them, in fact! Exceptional overall for size, color, style and completeness, this is a modern classic from a mine now closed (and given the drop in commodities prices, not likely to be opened again for a long, long time).
Deutsch: Calcit
Fundort: Elmwood mine, Karthago, Central Tennessee Ba-F-Pb-Zn District, Smith County, Tennessee, Vereinigte Staaten (Fundort bei mindat.org)
Größe: 14 x 7.5 x 5.8 cm
Date before March 2010
date QS:P,+2010-03-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+2010-03-00T00:00:00Z/10
Source Image: http://www.irocks.com/db_pics/pics/j08-26a.jpg, Description: http://www.irocks.com/render.html?species=Calcite&page=14
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Robert M. Lavinsky  (1972–)  wikidata:Q56247090
 
Alternative names
Robert Matthew Lavinsky; Lavinsky, Robert M.; Lavinsky R M
Description American mineral collector and mineral dealer
iRocks.com (Mineralogical Record)
Date of birth 13 December 1972 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth Columbus Edit this at Wikidata
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creator QS:P170,Q56247090
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