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Quartz & Rhodochrosite

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Quartz & Rhodochrosite

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Description
Locality: 
Cavnic Mine, Maramureș County, Romania
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
9.7 × 7.5 × 5 cm
Description

Quartz growing like a flower with tops up to 5.5 cm. Relatively clear crystals for location Cavnic and at the bottom there is a shiny pink rhodochrosite layer.

The big main crystals are undamaged - only at the boarder (or considered as matrix) not all tops are completed.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Quartz

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

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

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