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    Calcite is an extinct town located in Fremont County, Colorado, United States. It served as a company coal mining town for Colorado Fuel & Iron. It is...
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    of calcite. Chemically, gypsum is a hydrous sulfate of calcium, whereas calcite is a carbonate of calcium. As types of alabaster, gypsum and calcite have...
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    marble. It is nearly pure calcite marble with minor inclusions of mica, quartz, and feldspar, and has irregularly shaped calcite grains ranging from 100...
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    Boston: As Wild As They Come. Springfield, Colorado: Lonesome Prairie Publications. ISBN 978-1732258501. "Calcite". Museum Blog. Cañon City, CO: Royal Gorge...
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    U.S. State of Colorado. Major inhabited places in Colorado include the: 273 municipalities from the List of municipalities in Colorado 210 census-designated...
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    from minerals within aquifers. Common calcium-containing minerals are calcite and gypsum. A common magnesium mineral is dolomite (which also contains...
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    published in the journal Science in 2008, used uranium-lead dating to analyze calcite deposits found on the walls of nine caves throughout the canyon. In another...
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    Wellsville Adelaide Calcite Chandler Siloam Whitehorn Yorkville Government portal History portal Mountains portal United States portal Colorado portal Bibliography...
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    Rocks and Minerals in Hillsboro, Oregon, U.S. List of minerals Manganoan calcite Warr, L.N. (2021). "IMA–CNMNC approved mineral symbols". Mineralogical...
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    of the Winds is a cave in the Pikes Peak region of Colorado. It is located just west of Colorado Springs on U.S. Highway 24, near the Manitou Cliff Dwellings...
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    Calcite crystals form on the surface of quiescent bodies of water, even when the bulk water is not supersaturated with respect to calcium carbonate. The...
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    is a metamorphic rock consisting of carbonate minerals (most commonly calcite (CaCO3) or dolomite (CaMg(CO3)2) that have recrystallized under the influence...
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    portal Colorado portal Bibliography of Colorado Geography of Colorado History of Colorado Index of Colorado-related articles List of Colorado-related...
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    elevations. The localized geology created a marble that is 99.5% pure calcite, with a grain structure that gives a smooth texture, a homogeneous look...
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    mistakenly assumed to be efflorescence. Calthemites are usually deposited as calcite which is the most stable polymorph of calcium carbonate (CaCO3). The only...
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  • Cadmoselite Cadwaladerite Cafarsite Cafetite Cahnite Calaverite Calciborite Calcite Calderite Caledonite Calomel Calumetite Campigliaite Canasite Canavesite...
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    in association with galena, chalcopyrite, pyrite (and other sulfides), calcite, dolomite, quartz, rhodochrosite, and fluorite. German geologist Ernst...
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    Uinta Mountains (category Colorado Plateau)
    mountain range in northeastern Utah extending a short distance into northwest Colorado and slightly into southwestern Wyoming in the United States. As a subrange...
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    usually calcite. The calcite often contains significant iron (ferroan calcite) and may have inclusions of pyrite and clay minerals. The brown calcite common...
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    lazuli is a rock composed primarily of the minerals lazurite, pyrite and calcite. As early as the 7th millennium BC, lapis lazuli was mined in the Sar-i...
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    ones may have porosities as low as 2% due to crystallization of secondary calcite in the original pore spaces, while some of the fresh aragonite travertine...
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    octahedral forms. It is often associated with the minerals sphalerite, calcite and fluorite. Galena is the main ore of lead, used since ancient times...
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    It also occurs as cavity and vesicle fillings associated with prehnite, calcite, and zeolites. Analcime forms in sedimentary rocks at temperatures below...
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    sandstone, and mudrocks. Carbonate sedimentary rocks are composed of calcite (rhombohedral CaCO 3), aragonite (orthorhombic CaCO 3), dolomite (CaMg(CO...
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    minerals are those minerals containing the carbonate ion, CO2− 3. Calcite group: trigonal Calcite CaCO3 Gaspéite (Ni,Mg,Fe2+)CO3 Magnesite MgCO3 Otavite CdCO3...
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    Creedite typically occurs with low-grade metamorphic rocks on a fluorite – calcite – quartz matrix or on a sulfide-matrix with its oxidized products. Creedite...
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    metals. Wood can also be petrified by calcite, as occurs in concretions in coal beds. Wood petrified by calcite tends to retain more of its original organic...
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    white quartz, gray quartz, jasper, banded jasper, jade, banded onyx, calcite nodule, gold-plated silver, sapphire, opal and cloisonné. Height 27 cm...
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