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Object of the Month

Calcite, Cambokeels Mine, Eastgate

Wafer thin hexagonal calcite crystals. The crystals cream coloured on the edge and with dark centres. From the 200 level of Cambokeels Mine, Eastgate, Weardale. Awarded 1st prize in Class 5 of the 1995 Grand Mineralogical Exhibition. Specimen width 50mm.