Daily Mail

The 'great white ghosts' of Namibia's savannah: Elephants look like wild spectres after covering themselves with white mud

With their skin stained white by clay and calcite sand, these elephants look like ghosts haunting the sun-drenched savannah. The unusual-looking animals were photographed by a watering hole in Namibia ...
Daily Mail

Now that's what I call a white elephant! African giant coats himself in clay and mud to keep cool in the heat of the savannah

They say that elephants never forget, but this one looks like a morning wash may have slipped its mind. Indeed, with its skin stained by clay and calcite sand it looks like it’s been painted with ...
WLRN

From The Curious Vault At The Miami Science Museum: Calcite

Tucked away on a high shelf in the collections room of the Museum of Science is a startlingly unique rock specimen. It is white with long jutting crystal arms and made of a fragile mineral called ...
Global Times

Handicrafts made of chrysanthemum stones in China's Hubei

Craftsmen carry away a finished handicraft made of chrysanthemum stone in a workshop in Enshi, central China's Hubei Province, January 12, 2013. "Chrysanthemum stone", a type of mineral technically ...