A very gemmy, bright yellow brazilianite prism measuring 2 cm sits on a nicely contrasting greyish quartz crystal. Sharp!

A very gemmy trio of intergrown calcite prisms on matrix. Wonderful miniature.

A pair of water clear calcite prisms with smaller crystals on a matrix of hematite stained calcites.

A pair of water clear prisms of calcite on matrix. There’s a tiny nick on one of the terminations. This little guy was found during an excavation near the airport in Skardu, and I don’t think there’ll be any more. A find for the serious calcite collector!

Clear and lustrous, intergrown calcite crystals on a reddish brown matrix of dolomite, with minor duftite. Pretty specimen.

A beautiful, twinned, very gemmy calcite prism sits on a bit of purple fluorite. Super miniature mined in 1985.

Tiny calcite crystals sit on a group of gemmy and lustrous yellow fluorites with purple zoned edges. Mined in 1994.

Several columnar crystal aggregates of kutnohorite have been completely replaced by manganoan calcite and are sprinkled with a dust of manganese. Fluoresces orange under both LW and SW.

Clear calcite rhombs with a bit of malachite sit on on a creamy dolomite stalactite.

Pastel yellow, highly lustrous rhombohedral crystals of calcite on a mound of deep green mottramite. It almost makes you want to display the underside.