Yellow Calcite

Yellow CalciteOne of the most common minerals on earth, Calcite is a form of Calcium Carbonate and is one of the primary components in limestone. It is found in a vast array of forms, from prismatic crystals to fibrous wisps. Calcite is clear naturally but it can be found in a variety of brilliant colors due to the presence of chemical impurities during formation. These unique yellow calcite crystals are highly UV reactive and feature fine, irregular crystalline

Species - Scyphocrinites elegans

which over the course of millions of years becomes solid while retaining the semitransparent yellowish hue of tree sap

Amethyst is often found in spectacular geodes

Creedite is a rare mineral in the hydoxylhalide group and is often formed from the intense oxidation of fluorite formations

the Creede Quadrangle in Colorado

Beautifully preserved on slabs of flat shale

fluorite specimens have been prized since ancient times and are now among the most popular minerals in the collecting world

Metacanthian Trilibite from the Mid Devonian Period

This preglabellar ring (head shield) is covered in many sensory pits which may have held hairlike features when the trilobite was alive

often radiating outward from a central axis

The word copper originates from the latin for the island of Cyprus

This Fossil has been broken and repaired