Description
This is a wonderful Calcite cluster. Six-sided, short prismatic crystals with perfect flat trigonal terminations, vitreous luster, and from translucent white to crystal clear transparent. This is a uniquely aesthetic specimen from the hard to pronounce locality of Gyöngyösoroszi in Hungary. This kind of specimen was offered fairly regularly at mineral shows in the West from the 1960s to the 1980s but have since completely disappeared and are practically impossible to get.
This specimen could be mistaken for an Egremont nailhead piece, however, the matrix gives it away. Egremont Calcite would have red stained iron ore matrix.