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Calcite + stilbite
Biod a’ Mhurain, Duirinish, Isle of Skye, Scotland, UK
Specimen is 75 mm x 45 mm
Calcite crystal 20mm wide

An interpenetrant rhombohedral calcite crystal 20mm wide is perched aesthetically on a bed of simple calcite rhombs (to 4mm), on a thin bed of micro stilbite crystals. Specimen is 75 mm x 45 mm. Self-collected 1997 from Biod a’ Mhurain, Duirinish, Isle of Skye. (Author: Mike Wood)