Interesting Facts About Calcite

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Calcite is a very abundant mineral found in the Earth’s crust.  It is found in sedimentary rock.  Calcite contains carbon, calcium, and oxygen which are collectively known as calcium carbonate.  It is usually mined from deep underground or quarried from the surface of the earth.

There are many varieties of calcite, and each has specific properties. In general, calcite is gentle and revitalizing and works to clear energy blockages in the body’s energy systems. Orange calcite works with the 2nd and 3rd chakras, healing and giving energy toward creativity, sexuality, and the will. You can match the color of calcite to the chakra it works with: Blue works with the Throat Chakra, Green & Pink work with the Heart Chakra and Red works with the Root Chakra for Emotional Wholeness.

Calcite is a soft stone consisting of calcium carbonate. It is abundantly available and occurs in a variety of colors, and ranges from transparent to opaque.  Some people use it for anxiety, depression, creativity, inspiration, joy, nurturing and vitality.  Calcite is a carbonate mineral. It is a very common mineral, particularly as a component of limestone.  Calcite defines hardness 3 on the Mohs scale of mineral hardness, based on scratch hardness comparison.  Large calcite crystals are used in optical equipment, and limestone composed mostly of calcite has numerous uses.

Calcite is derived from the German Calcit, a term from the 19th century that came from the Latin word for lime, calx (genitive calcis) with the suffix “-ite” used to name minerals. It is thus etymologically related to chalk.  When applied by archaeologists and stone trade professionals, the term alabaster is used not just as in geology and mineralogy, where it is reserved for a variety of gypsum; but also for a similar-looking, translucent variety of fine-grained banded deposit of calcite.

Calcite is a common constituent of sedimentary rocks, limestone in particular, much of which is formed from the shells of dead marine organisms. Approximately 10% of sedimentary rock is limestone. It is the primary mineral in metamorphic marble.  It also occurs in deposits from hot springs as a vein mineral, in caverns as stalactites and stalagmites, and in volcanic or mantle-derived rocks such as carbonatites, kimberlites or rarely in peridotites.