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Rhodonite

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Rhodonite

ex coll. Kles
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Description
Locality: 
Harstigen Mine, Pajsberg, Persberg, Filipstad, Värmland County, Sweden
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
11 × 10.2 × 4.5 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.50cm
Description

Great big specimen with ruby-red rhodonite crystals up to 1.5 cm. Very good crystals. Very good color.
The best of the specimen, self-collected by the Kles' in the seventies. Very hard to get rhodonites from Sweden nowadays.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

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

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