Calcite : CSIRO Spectroscopy Database

Calcite [ CaCO₃ ]

Images of Calcite

Photograph of a specimen of calcite, fluorite and willemite, from Purple Passion Mine, Wickenburg, Arizona. Specimen size: 14mm

UV luminescence image of a specimen of calcite (red), fluorite (blue) and willemite (green) from Purple Passion Mine, Wickenburg, Arizona. Size: 14cm

Medium-wave UV photoluminescence image of a specimen of calcite (pink) with fluorite (blue), from Fission Mine, Harcourt, Ontario, Canada. Size:8cm

Shortwave UV photoluminescence image of crystals of hydrozincite on a calcite matrix, from Franklin, NJ

Shortwave UV photoluminescence image of a specimen of esperite (yellow), calcite (red) and willemite (green), from Franklin, New Jersey. Size: 8cm.

Shortwave UV photoluminescence image of a specimen of calcite (red), willemite (green) and franklinite (black), from Franklin, NJ. Specimen size: 5cm

Image of a specimen of hydrozincite, chondrodite, diopside and calcite from Long Lake Zinc Mine, Frontenac Co. Ontario Canada. Size: 14cm

Longwave UV photoluminescence image of crystals of hydrozincite on a calcite matrix, from Franklin, NJ

Crystals of cerussite on calcite, from Tsumeb, Namibia. Specimen size: 15cm

Short- and medium-wave luminescence image of a specimen of calcite (red), aragonite (blue), and chondrodite (yellow), from Long Lake Zinc Mine, Frontenac Co. Ontario Canada. Specimen size: 14cm

Shortwave UV luminescence image of specimen of calcite (red) with willemite (green) and franklinite (non-luminescent), from Franklin, New Jersey. Specimen size: 11cm

Midwave UV photoluminescence image of a specimen of hydrozincite (powder blue PL), chondrodite (yellow PL), diopside (blue-green PL) and calcite (red-pink PL) from Long Lake Zinc Mine, Frontenac Co. Ontario Canada. Size: 14cm

Shortwave UV photoluminescence image of a specimen of calcite (red), willemite (green) and franklinite (black), from Franklin, NJ.

Shortwave UV photoluminescence image of a specimen of esperite (yellow), calcite (red) and willemite (green), from Franklin, New Jersey. Size: 8cm.

Photograph of a specimen of calcite (white) with willemite (brown) and franklinite (black), from Franklin, New Jersey. Specimen size: 11cm

Photograph of a specimen of esperite, calcite and willemite, from Franklin, New Jersey. Size: 8cm

Shortwave UV photoluminescence image of a specimen of willemite (green), calcite (red) and franklinite (dark), from Franklin, New Jersey. Size: 8cm

Photograph of a specimen of calcite, willemite and franklinite, from Franklin, NJ. Specimen size: 5cm

Image of PL/Laser spectrum of Calcite (var st1e)

Photograph of specimen of calcite from Mexico

Shortwave UV photoluminescence image of a specimen of calcite from Mexico

Image of PL/Laser spectrum of Calcite (var Terlingua)

CL spectrum of Mn rich calcite

Medium-wave UV luminescence image of calcite specimen from Duyun, Guizhou Prov., China

Photograph of a specimen of calcite, willemite and franklinite, from Franklin, NJ.

Photograph of a specimen containing chondrodite, calcite, diopside and hydrozincite, from Long Lake Zinc Mine, Frontenac Co. Ontario Canada. Size: 13cm

Photograph of a specimen of esperite, calcite and willemite, from Franklin, New Jersey. Size: 8cm.

Shortwave UV photoluminescence image of a specimen containing chondrodite (yellow PL), calcite (red-pink PL), diopside (bluish-green to blue PL) and hydrozincite (powder blue PL), from Long Lake Zinc Mine, Frontenac Co. Ontario Canada. Size: 13cm

Photograph of a specimen of calcite, fluorite and willemite, from Purple Passion Mine, Wickenburg, Arizona. Specimen size:14 cm

Photograph of calcite with duftite (NMNH 166935) from the National Mineral Collection

Phot by Chip Clark, Smithsonian Institution. CC0

Photograph of specimen of calcite from Mexico

Photograph of a specimen of hydrozincite, chondrodite, Ddopside and calcite from Long Lake Zinc Mine, Frontenac Co. Ontario Canada. Size: 14cm

Image of a specimen of willemite, calcite and franklinite from Franklin, New Jersey. Size: 8cm

Photograph of calcite specimen from Duyun, Guizhou Prov., China

Photograph of specimen of containing calcite, aragonite, chondrodite, etc., from Long Lake Zinc Mine, Frontenac Co. Ontario Canada. Specimen size: 14cm

Photograph of a specimen containing chondrodite, calcite, diopside and hydrozincite, from Long Lake Zinc Mine, Frontenac Co. Ontario Canada

Photograph of fine crystals of hydrozincite on a calcite matrix, from Franklin, NJ

Midwave UV photoluminescence image of a specimen of hydrozincite (powder blue PL), chondrodite (yellow PL), diopside (blue-green PL) and calcite (red-pink PL) from Long Lake Zinc Mine, Frontenac Co. Ontario Canada. Size: 14cm

Photograph of crystals of hydrozincite on a calcite matrix, from Franklin, NJ

UV luminescence image of a specimen of calcite (red), fluorite (blue) and willemite (green), from Purple Passion Mine, Wickenburg, Arizona.

Shortwave UV photoluminescence image of a specimen containing chondrodite (yellow PL), calcite (red-pink PL), diopside (bluish-green to blue PL) and hydrozincite (powder blue PL), from Long Lake Zinc Mine, Frontenac Co. Ontario Canada

Longwave UV photoluminescence image of crystals of hydrozincite on a calcite matrix, from Franklin, NJ

Shortwave UV photoluminescence image of crystals of hydrozincite on a calcite matrix, from Franklin, NJ

Image of PL/Laser spectrum of Calcite

Photograph of calcite specimen from Duyun, Guizhou Prov., China. Specimen size: 12.5cm

Photograph of specimen of calcite (white) with fluorite (purple), from Fission Mine, Harcourt, Ontario, Canada. Size:8cm

Shortwave UV photoluminescence image of crystals of cerussite (peach) on calcite (pink), from Tsumeb, Namibia. Specimen size: 15cm

Material properties

Formulas	(Ca,Mg)CO₃, CaCO₃
Abbreviation	Cal
IMA Status	Grandfathered (pre-IMA), 1836
Crystal symmetry	Trigonal, Point group 3m, Space group R3c (#167)
Classifications	Minerals containing CO3, Calcite (group), Calcium carbonate
Members	Plumbocalcite, Manganocalcite, Iceland spar
Variants	Mg, Terlingua, st1e
Related materials	Aragonite, Vaterite
Luminescence emitters	Ce, CO3, Cr, Dy, Er, Eu, Fe, Mn, Nd, Pb, PO2, Radiation induced, REE, Self trapped exciton, Sm, Tb, Triplet-singlet, Unspecified, UO2
Spectra	Luminescence (5), SXES (1)
Search other databases	webmineral.com, mindat.org, rruf.info, mineralienatlas.de, Handbook of Mineralogy, American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database
Tags	Carbonate, Mineral

Composition

Element	Atoms
Ca	1
C	1
O	3
Total:	5

References for Calcite

Reference

Lines

Spectra

Images

CSIRO SXES database

Chapoulie et al. 1995

Gaft et al. 1998

Gaft et al. 2005

Gorobets and Rogojine 2002

Griffith 1974

Habermann et al. 1999

Marshall 1988

CSIRO CL spectra 2021

Richter et al. 2003

Schulman et al. 1947

Sidike et al. 2006(a), luminescence

Sidike et al. 2006(a), luminescence, other

CSIRO spectra 2015 (Noril'sk-Kharelakh), luminescence

CSIRO spectra 2015 (Noril'sk-Kharelakh), luminescence, other

Tarashchan 1978

Walker & Burley 1991

Specimens of Calcite

Name	Owner	Materials	Phase purity	Image	Spectra	Techniques
Chondrodite-Calcite-Diopside-Hydrozincite (Ontario)	Hamblen, Prof James O., Georgia Tech	Calcite, Chondrodite, Diopside, Hydrozincite	—	Chondrodite-Calcite-Diopside-Hydrozincite (Ontario) Photograph of a specimen containing chondrodite, calcite, diopside and hydrozincite, from Long Lake Zinc Mine, Frontenac Co. Ontario Canada. Size: 13cm Photo (C) 2003 James O. Hamblen (http://hamblen.ece.gatech.edu/uvminerals/). Reproduced with permission.	0	—
Esperite-Calcite-Willemite (#2, Franklin, NJ)	Hamblen, Prof James O., Georgia Tech	Calcite, Esperite, Willemite	—	Esperite-Calcite-Willemite (#2, Franklin, NJ) Photograph of a specimen of esperite, calcite and willemite, from Franklin, New Jersey. Size: 8cm. Photo (C) 2003 James O. Hamblen (http://hamblen.ece.gatech.edu/uvminerals/). Reproduced with permission.	0	—
Hydrozincite (#3, Franklin, NJ)	Hamblen, Prof James O., Georgia Tech	Calcite, Hydrozincite	—	Hydrozincite (#3, Franklin, NJ) Photograph of fine crystals of hydrozincite on a calcite matrix, from Franklin, NJ Photo (C) 2003 James O. Hamblen (http://hamblen.ece.gatech.edu/uvminerals/). Reproduced with permission.	0	—
Hydrozincite (#4, Franklin, NJ)	Hamblen, Prof James O., Georgia Tech	Calcite, Hydrozincite	—	Hydrozincite (#4, Franklin, NJ) Image of a specimen containing hydrozincite and calcite, from Franklin, NJ Photo (C) 2003 James O. Hamblen (http://hamblen.ece.gatech.edu/uvminerals/). Reproduced with permission.	0	—
Hydrozincite (#5, Ontario)	Hamblen, Prof James O., Georgia Tech	Calcite, Hydrozincite	—	Hydrozincite (#5, Ontario) Photograph of a specimen of hydrozincite and calcite from Frontenac Lead Mine, Frontenac Co. Ontario Canada. Size: 12cm Photo (C) 2003 James O. Hamblen (http://hamblen.ece.gatech.edu/uvminerals/). Reproduced with permission.	0	—
Hydrozincite (#6, Ontario)	Hamblen, Prof James O., Georgia Tech	Calcite, Chondrodite, Diopside, Hydrozincite	—	Hydrozincite (#6, Ontario) Photograph of a specimen of hydrozincite, chondrodite, Ddopside and calcite from Long Lake Zinc Mine, Frontenac Co. Ontario Canada. Size: 14cm Photo (C) 2003 James O. Hamblen (http://hamblen.ece.gatech.edu/uvminerals/). Reproduced with permission.	0	—
KH-2	CSIRO	Amphibole, Apatite, Augite, Biotite, Calcite, Chalcopyrite, Chlorapatite, Enstatite, Forsterite, Ilmenite, Magnetite, Pentlandite, Plagioclase, Pyrite, Pyroxene, Pyrrhotite	—	KH-2 Clustered EPMA phase map of the KH-2 specimen (owner: S. Barnes, CSIRO Mineral Resources), from the Kharelakh intrusion, Noril'sk, Russia (C) 2015 CSIRO Process Science and Engineering. All Rights reserved.	26	CL, EDS
Septarian nodule (Utah)	Hamblen, Prof James O., Georgia Tech	Aragonite, Calcite	—	Septarian nodule (Utah) Photograph of a septarian nodule specimen from Orderville, Kane County, Utah. Specimen size: 21cm Photo (C) 2003 James O. Hamblen (http://hamblen.ece.gatech.edu/uvminerals/). Reproduced with permission.	0	—
Willemite-Calcite-Franklinite	Hamblen, Prof James O., Georgia Tech	Calcite, Franklinite, Willemite	—	Willemite-Calcite-Franklinite Image of a specimen of willemite, calcite and franklinite from Franklin, New Jersey. Size: 8cm Photo (C) 2003 James O. Hamblen (http://hamblen.ece.gatech.edu/uvminerals/). Reproduced with permission.	0	—
Wollastonite (#1, Franklin, NJ)	Hamblen, Prof James O., Georgia Tech	Calcite, Wollastonite	—	Wollastonite (#1, Franklin, NJ) Photograph of a specimen of wollastonite and calcite from Franklin, New Jersey. Size: 13cm Photo (C) 2003 James O. Hamblen (http://hamblen.ece.gatech.edu/uvminerals/). Reproduced with permission.	0	—

Calcite [ CaCO3 ]

Images of Calcite

Photograph of a specimen of calcite, fluorite and willemite, from Purple Passion Mine, Wickenburg, Arizona. Specimen size: 14mm

UV luminescence image of a specimen of calcite (red), fluorite (blue) and willemite (green) from Purple Passion Mine, Wickenburg, Arizona. Size: 14cm

Medium-wave UV photoluminescence image of a specimen of calcite (pink) with fluorite (blue), from Fission Mine, Harcourt, Ontario, Canada. Size:8cm

Shortwave UV photoluminescence image of crystals of hydrozincite on a calcite matrix, from Franklin, NJ

Shortwave UV photoluminescence image of a specimen of esperite (yellow), calcite (red) and willemite (green), from Franklin, New Jersey. Size: 8cm.

Shortwave UV photoluminescence image of a specimen of calcite (red), willemite (green) and franklinite (black), from Franklin, NJ. Specimen size: 5cm

Image of a specimen of hydrozincite, chondrodite, diopside and calcite from Long Lake Zinc Mine, Frontenac Co. Ontario Canada. Size: 14cm

Longwave UV photoluminescence image of crystals of hydrozincite on a calcite matrix, from Franklin, NJ

Crystals of cerussite on calcite, from Tsumeb, Namibia. Specimen size: 15cm

Short- and medium-wave luminescence image of a specimen of calcite (red), aragonite (blue), and chondrodite (yellow), from Long Lake Zinc Mine, Frontenac Co. Ontario Canada. Specimen size: 14cm

Shortwave UV luminescence image of specimen of calcite (red) with willemite (green) and franklinite (non-luminescent), from Franklin, New Jersey. Specimen size: 11cm

Midwave UV photoluminescence image of a specimen of hydrozincite (powder blue PL), chondrodite (yellow PL), diopside (blue-green PL) and calcite (red-pink PL) from Long Lake Zinc Mine, Frontenac Co. Ontario Canada. Size: 14cm

Shortwave UV photoluminescence image of a specimen of calcite (red), willemite (green) and franklinite (black), from Franklin, NJ.

Shortwave UV photoluminescence image of a specimen of esperite (yellow), calcite (red) and willemite (green), from Franklin, New Jersey. Size: 8cm.

Photograph of a specimen of calcite (white) with willemite (brown) and franklinite (black), from Franklin, New Jersey. Specimen size: 11cm

Photograph of a specimen of esperite, calcite and willemite, from Franklin, New Jersey. Size: 8cm

Shortwave UV photoluminescence image of a specimen of willemite (green), calcite (red) and franklinite (dark), from Franklin, New Jersey. Size: 8cm

Photograph of a specimen of calcite, willemite and franklinite, from Franklin, NJ. Specimen size: 5cm

Image of PL/Laser spectrum of Calcite (var st1e)

Photograph of specimen of calcite from Mexico

Shortwave UV photoluminescence image of a specimen of calcite from Mexico

Image of PL/Laser spectrum of Calcite (var Terlingua)

CL spectrum of Mn rich calcite

Medium-wave UV luminescence image of calcite specimen from Duyun, Guizhou Prov., China

Photograph of a specimen of calcite, willemite and franklinite, from Franklin, NJ.

Photograph of a specimen containing chondrodite, calcite, diopside and hydrozincite, from Long Lake Zinc Mine, Frontenac Co. Ontario Canada. Size: 13cm

Photograph of a specimen of esperite, calcite and willemite, from Franklin, New Jersey. Size: 8cm.

Shortwave UV photoluminescence image of a specimen containing chondrodite (yellow PL), calcite (red-pink PL), diopside (bluish-green to blue PL) and hydrozincite (powder blue PL), from Long Lake Zinc Mine, Frontenac Co. Ontario Canada. Size: 13cm

Photograph of a specimen of calcite, fluorite and willemite, from Purple Passion Mine, Wickenburg, Arizona. Specimen size:14 cm

Photograph of calcite with duftite (NMNH 166935) from the National Mineral Collection

Photograph of specimen of calcite from Mexico

Photograph of a specimen of hydrozincite, chondrodite, Ddopside and calcite from Long Lake Zinc Mine, Frontenac Co. Ontario Canada. Size: 14cm

Image of a specimen of willemite, calcite and franklinite from Franklin, New Jersey. Size: 8cm

Photograph of calcite specimen from Duyun, Guizhou Prov., China

Photograph of specimen of containing calcite, aragonite, chondrodite, etc., from Long Lake Zinc Mine, Frontenac Co. Ontario Canada. Specimen size: 14cm

Photograph of a specimen containing chondrodite, calcite, diopside and hydrozincite, from Long Lake Zinc Mine, Frontenac Co. Ontario Canada

Photograph of fine crystals of hydrozincite on a calcite matrix, from Franklin, NJ

Midwave UV photoluminescence image of a specimen of hydrozincite (powder blue PL), chondrodite (yellow PL), diopside (blue-green PL) and calcite (red-pink PL) from Long Lake Zinc Mine, Frontenac Co. Ontario Canada. Size: 14cm

Photograph of crystals of hydrozincite on a calcite matrix, from Franklin, NJ

UV luminescence image of a specimen of calcite (red), fluorite (blue) and willemite (green), from Purple Passion Mine, Wickenburg, Arizona.

Shortwave UV photoluminescence image of a specimen containing chondrodite (yellow PL), calcite (red-pink PL), diopside (bluish-green to blue PL) and hydrozincite (powder blue PL), from Long Lake Zinc Mine, Frontenac Co. Ontario Canada

Longwave UV photoluminescence image of crystals of hydrozincite on a calcite matrix, from Franklin, NJ

Shortwave UV photoluminescence image of crystals of hydrozincite on a calcite matrix, from Franklin, NJ

Image of PL/Laser spectrum of Calcite

Photograph of calcite specimen from Duyun, Guizhou Prov., China. Specimen size: 12.5cm

Photograph of specimen of calcite (white) with fluorite (purple), from Fission Mine, Harcourt, Ontario, Canada. Size:8cm

Shortwave UV photoluminescence image of crystals of cerussite (peach) on calcite (pink), from Tsumeb, Namibia. Specimen size: 15cm

Material properties

Composition

References for Calcite

Specimens of Calcite

Calcite [ CaCO₃ ]