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Rhodonite Var Fowlerite

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Rhodonite Var Fowlerite

19th Century collection
With Antique Label

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Description
Locality: 
Sterling Mine, Ogdensburg, Sussex County, New Jersey, United States of America
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5 × 2.8 × 1.5 cm
Description

Very nice old rhodonite specimen from the Sterling Hill mine with an old German, handwritten label and sticker (unknown collection).

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

Fowlerite

Variety Of: 

Rhodonite

Formula: 
MnSiO3
Strunz: 
9.DK.05
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.5
Strunz: 
9.DK.05
Hardness: 
0.0

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