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Rhodochrosite

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Rhodochrosite

Pseudomorph

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Description
Locality: 
Poudrette Quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Québec, Canada
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4.2 × 3.2 × 2.4 cm
Description

Very nice specimen of dark rhodochrosite pseudomorph after eudyalite, associated with natrolite, aegirine, polylithionite, genthelvite (fluorescent) and type locality species gaidonnayite.  Collected by Gilles Haineault.

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

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