Calcite

Here you will find our Calcite offerings, with a large range of raw specimens to carved towers and spheres.

Calcite is a common mineral, found worldwide.  There are over 300 different forms with some being highly variable and valuable.  Calcite comes in a variety of colours, with it's purist form being 'Iceland Spar' aka 'Optical Calcite'.

Some Interesting Calcite Facts:

∙∙∙  Medieval Icelandic texts talk about 'Iceland Spar' aka Optical Calcite being used by Vikings for navigational purposes, enabling them to locate the sun on cloudy days due to it's polarization.

∙∙∙  The Pyramid of Giza was once encased in five and a half million tons of limestone, which has a primary mineral of calcite.

∙∙∙ The Sphinx of Memphis, an 8 meter x 4 meter carved Alabaster (Calcite) statue carved between 1700 and 1400BCE is the largest known Calcite carving in the world.