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Rhodochrosite & Manganoan Calcite

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Rhodochrosite & Manganoan Calcite

Fluorescent

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Description
Locality: 
Madem-Lakko Mine, Cassandra Mines, Aristotelis, Chalkidiki, Central Macedonia, Greece
Class: 
Combination
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.6 × 4.8 × 1.8 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.80cm
Weight: 
60.00gr
Description

Cute specimen with very pale pink botryoidal Rhodochrosite aggregates covered with a light druse Quartz layer and associated with scalenohedral Calcite crystals, fluorescent under UV light, in bouquet-like cluster, on the upper left side of this aesthetic specimen.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Rhodochrosite

Formula: 
MnCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Cavnic Mine (Kapnikbánya), Cavnic (Kapnic; Kapnik), Maramureș Co., Romania

Manganoan Calcite

Variety Of: 

Calcite

Formula: 
CaCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Hardness: 
3.0
Formula: 
(Ca,Mn)CO3
Hardness: 
0.0

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