Discoverer and namesake L.R. Ligier noted the black, weakly marbleized limestone with white calcite stringers in the Golden Rule metallic mineral district in the Gunnison Hills of the Dragoon ...

But calcite from stalactites had dripped onto the female’s fingers and due to the low levels of uranium and thorium in calcite, experts dated the deposits to around 9,900 years ago, meaning the ...

Welcome back friends! If you're new here, thank you for joining me on an adventure, and I hope you'll consider subscribing! In this video I'm on the search for fossils found in fill material on dirt ...

Onyx or banded calcite bookends are the vintage décor pieces you should definitely snag if you see them at the thrift store.

By Noel Murray Season 3 of “The White Lotus” has been the show’s longest, with the creator Mike White spending eight episodes instead of six or seven to tell the stories of superrich ...

Samples were taken across areas with abundant veining of white calcite and crackle breccias with carbonate matrix and hematite-rich fractures (Figure 4). A lead value of 1.91% over 1 m was ...

Even if you know what’s coming, there’s still a wow factor when you finally reach it, and the spectacle of that white landscape is revealed. Over millennia, the calcite deposited by the ...

Some of the carbon brought into the mound is converted into white calcite minerals by microbes. Because this traps carbon in a mineral form, it is sequestered for much longer than if the carbon ...

Color is white or colorless, though shades of gray, red, yellow, green, blue, violet, brown, or even black can occur when the mineral is charged with impurities. Calcite reacts when it comes into ...