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Calcite, a rock forming mineral is the dominant component of all limestones and, due to its dissolution and reprecipitation by natural waters at normal temperatures, it is also the dominant mineral of chemical cave deposits including stalactites and stalagmites. It is white or colourless when pure but may be stained, most commonly to yellows browns, by included impurities such as iron oxides.

Ca(CO₃) - Calcium Carbonate

Carbonates

Calcite

Triagonal

Color:

Colorless, white, gray, yellow, brown, pink, red, blue, green, black

Streak:

White

Luster:

Vitreous to pearly

Diaphaneity:

Transparent to opaque

2.7

Perfect

Conchoidal

Crystals of various habit, concretionsm stalactites, oolitic aggregates, granular, massive

Luminescence:

Sometimes red to orange

Frequency:

Common

Origin:

Elmwood, Gordonsville, Cumberland mines, Smith County, Tennessee; Brushy Creek mine, Missouri; Andreasburg, Harz Mountains and Saxony, Germany; Brazil; Guanajuato, Mexico; Africa; China.

Occurence:

One of the most common minerals, resulting from a wide range of conditions, it is magmatic, hydrothermal, sedimentary, metamorphic and secondary, it occurs in various parageneses.

Application:

Cement, Limestone, Glass industry, Optical industry and as a mineral specimen.

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