Glendonite - Russia




Glendonite - Russia
Location: Olenitsa River, White Sea Coast, Murmansk Oblast, Russia
Size: 2.33 × 2.32 x 1.41 inches
Glendonite is technically not a mineral but a Calcite pseudomorph after Ikaite. So Glendonite an unusual and distinctive form of calcite that started out as a crystalline masses of ikaite in near freezing water. Calcite masses that retain ikaite crystal shapes are called glendonites.