This should be an easy ID for someone in the know

[diggummup]

I picked this up recently at a garage sale along with some other specimens, mostly quartz crystals and a couple geodes. This piece is 3 inches tall and 5 inches wide and has brown opaque six sided structures coming to a point. Any ideas, I can't find my Identification guide at the moment. Any ideas?

 

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[Tuberale]

Not calcite, which is often transluscent.

Rather barite, I believe. Sometimes referred to as a "Desert Rose". The crystals in your specimen are slightly more defined than most.

 

[Yoop]

The specimen is calcite. It is the crystal shape commonly called "dog-tooth spar".

 

[diggummup]

Okay i've been researching your answers and the only thing I can find that looks like my specimen is a brown calcite cluster that is in a collection owned by Hershel Friedman at The Mineral and Gemstone Kingdom
http://www.minerals.net/mineral/calcite.aspx?img=/Image/14/38/Calcite.aspx.
Thanks for the help you all.

 

[Tuberale]

I think you are right, diggummup. I believe my suggest is wrong. I searched online for barite desert rose, and the crystal structures do not look at all like your photo. My bad.

 

[diggummup]

I think you are right, diggummup. I believe my suggest is wrong. I searched online for barite desert rose, and the crystal structures do not look at all like your photo. My bad.

Hey no problem at all, we're all in this together.

 

[Gold_Striker]

A specimen worthy of a museum to be sure just beautiful!

 

[diggummup]

A specimen worthy of a museum to be sure just beautiful!

You really think so? Thanks.

 

[acevillav]

WTG You always find primo loot

Ace Villa-v

 

[junkboy]

Looks like an arrowhead nest.

 

[pat-tekker-cat]

Looks like an arrowhead nest.

I was thinking a porcupine turd. LOL!

It is very beautiful diggummup, thanks for sharing. 8)