Mining in Maine!!!!! :) :D

• Calcite is mined using quarrying or underground mines.

• If the calcite is not too deep in the ground then they use quarrying to mine it!

• Calcite is used for making glass, paper, buildings, and many other things.

• One of the the Mining company's is called Marston.

• Calcite has more uses than almost any other mineral. Most is used as a construction material in the form of cement or concrete. In agriculture it is used as a soil treatment to neutralize the ground and it fillers it.

• In a powdered form, calcite often has an extremely white color. This quality makes it often used as a whiting. Calcite has long been used as a whitewash and it is also used as an ingredient of paint.

• The acid neutralizing ability of calcite is used in medicine

Some other facts about Calcite!

Color	usually white but also colorless, gray, red, green, blue, yellow, brown, orange
Streak	white
Luster	vitreous
Diaphaneity	transparent to translucent
Cleavage	rhombohedral, perfect
Hardness	3
Specific Gravity	2.7
Distinguishing Characteristics	hardness, cleavage, dissolves in cold dilute HCl
Crystal System	hexagonal
Chemical Classification	Carbonate
Chemical Composition	Calcium carbonate , CaCO3