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Caryopilite & Rhodochrosite

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Caryopilite & Rhodochrosite

George Elling collection
Classic Locality

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Description
Locality: 
Sterling Hill, Ogdensburg, Sussex County, New Jersey, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
11.4 × 5.3 × 2.4 cm
Description

You are bidding on a large sample with two vugs hosting numerous small clusters of rhodochrosite crystals that have grown on brown plates and botryoidal druses of caryopilite. Also associated with sharp willemite prisms and secondary franklinite crystals. From the stock of Ewald Gerstmann and the George Elling collection. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Caryopilite

Formula: 
(Mn,Mg)3(Si2O5)(OH)4
Strunz: 
9.ED.15
Hardness: 
3.0 - 3.5
Type Locality: 
Harstigen Mine, Pajsberg, Persberg district, Filipstad, Värmland, Sweden

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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