Calcite
description: <p style="text-align: justify;">LOCALITY: Near Wenshan, Yunnan Province, China <br /><br />4 1/2" tall <br /><br />This specimen consist of two colorless, lustrous and mainly transparent calcite crystals. One of them displays a pyramidal termination and the other displays a hopper termination.  The general quality and the difference in crystal shapes differentiates this specimen from thousands of other lesser Chinese calcite specimens.  </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> </p> <p style="text-align: justify;">This piece was formerly in the collection of Professor Stephen Smale.  It was traded from the Smale collection during a visit to Hong Kong in October 2015.  </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> </p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Photo by Matthew Webb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia</p>