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Rhodochrosite

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Rhodochrosite

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Description
Locality: 
Cerro De Pasco, Pasco Department, Peru
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
10.2 × 9.5 × 6 cm
Description

A massive rhodochrosite specimen full of nice crystals on one side with some quartz crystals on top. A layer of chalcopyrite, galena and possibly bornite right under the rhodochrosite crystals and some pyrite cubes sprinkled into the matrix (see side view).

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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