22117 - Top Beautiful Huge 4.43 Inch Calcite Crystals from South Morocco Toletanaspis and included within the crystals

and included within the crystals

This piece belongs with absolute certainty to a great raptor

3 mm and 1

" because its two cleavage planes are at right angles to each other

The group has hardly changed in millions of years

22117 - Top Beautiful Huge 4.43 Inch Calcite Crystals from South Morocco Toletanaspis and included within the crystalsHuge and sharp crystals of calcite from a new location unpublished in the mountains of the Erich region, Morocco. Calcite is a carbonate mineral and the most stable polymorph of calcium carbonate (CaCO3). The Mohs scale of mineral hardness, based on scratch hardness comparison, defines value 3 as "calcite". Other polymorphs of calcium carbonate are the minerals aragonite and vaterite. Aragonite will change to calcite over timescales of days or less at