Take a close look at this incredible "Dragon Scale Calcite", with the trademark blackish color and golden chalcopyrite inclusions!  The stepped calcite faces create a beautiful textured effect that many say resembles dragon scales.  This piece has an excellent showing of scales on the front, where you can easily see where this famous material gets its name.
 
As with all of our minerals, no two pieces are alike, offering a truly one-of-a-kind gift for mineral collectors, Minecraft fans, geologists, and rockhounds alike.  This Dragonscale Calcite is from the Sweetwater Mine, MO.  Pictured on a large adjustable stand, which is included with purchase.
 
About Calcite
Calcite is a popular collectible mineral cherished for its diverse crystal habits, vibrant colors, and widespread occurrence.  Calcite is a common mineral found in sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous rocks worldwide.  It crystallizes in the trigonal crystal system, forming rhombohedral or scalenohedral crystals with three cleavage planes that are often visible.
 
Calcite is a major component of limestone, marble, and chalk, as well as many other sedimentary rocks. It also forms in hydrothermal veins, as a precipitate from groundwater, and as a component of some igneous rocks.  Calcite has numerous industrial applications, including as a building material (limestone and marble), in the production of lime and cement, as a soil conditioner, in the manufacture of glass and ceramics, and as a source of calcium carbonate in dietary supplements.