Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Rhodonite With Schefferite

Views:
Watches:
CLB136411

Rhodonite With Schefferite

ex coll. Kles
Classic Locality

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Harstigen Mine, Pajsberg, Persberg, Filipstad, Värmland County, Sweden
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3 × 1.7 × 0.8 cm
Description

Large cherry-red rhodonite crystals with dark brown schefferite crystals - a mangan-rich diopside variety. The base is a rather large rhodonite crystal of almost 3 cm length.

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

Schefferite

Variety Of: 

Diopside

Formula: 
CaMgSi2O6
Strunz: 
9.DA.15
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.5
Formula: 
(Ca,Mn)(Mg,Fe,Mn)Si2O6
Hardness: 
0.0

Seller Information

Payment options: offline, paypal_wpp, paypal_wps