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Rhodochrosite & Quartz

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Description
Locality: 
Madem-Lakko Mine, Cassandra Mines, Aristotelis, Chalkidiki, Central Macedonia, Greece
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
2.5 × 3.8 × 2 cm
Description

Intense bright pink coral form rhodochrosite aesthetically placed on quartz crystals matrix.This is the most wanted rhodochrosite from this now classic for such specimens locality.Comes from the well known for top rhodochrosite specimens "174" tunnel of the mine that now is refilled and cemented.Such specimens are known from few old finds and are very rarely seen nowdays even at local retired miner's collections.

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

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
7.0
Streak: 
White

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