Calcite
description: LOCALITY: 884 Mine, Leiping, Sichuan Province, China
3" tall
This is a fine loose crystal. In 200w, I bought a group of about 100 crystals from Robert Lavinsky. I donated or sold most of them and this is one of the three that I kept.
Since around the early 1990's, the availability of fine calcite specimens from China and Russia has redefined what the world's best colorless calcite specimens should look like.