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Helvine On Rhodonite

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Helvine On Rhodonite

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Description
Locality: 
Pachapaqui District, Bolognesi Province, Ancash Department, Peru
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8 × 4.7 × 3.7 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.30cm
Description

A beautiful and colourfull specimens with a small cluster of yellow helvite crystals up to 3 mm on a matrix of well-formed pink rhodonite crystals and associated with some pyrite crystals.
From a one-time find in the 1990's.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Helvine

Formula: 
Mn2+4(Be3Si3O12)S
Strunz: 
9.FB.10
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
6.0 - 6.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Friedefürst Mine, Breitenbrunn, Breitenbrunn District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

Rhodonite

Formula: 
MnSiO3
Strunz: 
9.DK.05
Crystal System: 
Triclinic
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Kaiser Franz Mine (König Wilhelm Mine), Schävenholz (Schebenholz; Schäbenholz), Elbingerode, Harz, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
Cartils Minerals

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