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Axinite-(Mn) & Rhodonite

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Axinite-(Mn) & Rhodonite

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Description
Locality: 
Pachapaqui District, Bolognesi Province, Ancash Department, Peru
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.5 × 3.5 × 3.3 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.30cm
Description

A very attractive, colourfull and quite rare sample of axinite Mn on rhodonite from the Pachapaqui District, Peru. The specimen has a good coverage of sharp lustrous yellowish axinite Mn crystals up to 3 mm on a matrix of small intense pink rhodonite crystals.
Backside has partly been sawed.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Axinite-(Mn)

Formula: 
Ca2Mn2+Al2BSi4O15(OH)
Strunz: 
9.BD.20
Hardness: 
6.5 - 7.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Harz, Lower 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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