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Rhodochrosite & Calcite

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Rhodochrosite & Calcite

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Description
Locality: 
Boldut Mine, Cavnic, Maramureș County, Romania
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7.5 × 6 × 3.3 cm
Description

An excellent and very aesthetic specimen from Cavnic with a rich coverage of aggregates of rhombohedral rhodochrosite crystals with very pronounced curvatures, forming the habit well known as "saddle crystals". They have a very intense and uniform pink color and are associated by white groups of calcite crystals.

Great piece, from my own collection.

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

Calcite

Polymorph of: 
Formula: 
CaCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.0
Streak: 
White
Cartils Minerals

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