Calcite Specimen

Calcite is natures shape shifter, from dragon scale to pink rose it comes in quite a few different crystal structures and colors that can look drastically different from one another with some able to glow under UV light. Each variety of Calcite tells a different story of where it came from and what it has been through over tens of thousands to even millions of years. Calcite is an incredible versatile mineral that grows in sedimentary rock in oceans and lakes, cave formations from seeping rainwater and hydrothermal vents, all in which calcium compiles and reacts forming crystals. Depending on those circumstances it will make a different variety of Calcite

Hardness: 3
Composition: CaCo₃