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Rhodochrosite Hübnerite & Quartz

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Rhodochrosite Hübnerite & Quartz

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Description
Locality: 
Sweet Home Mine, Alma District, Park County, Colorado, United States of America
Class: 
Combination
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.3 × 2.5 × 2.5 cm
Largest Crystal: 
2.50cm
Description

One of the most exciting Sweet Home mine specimen I've seen in a while - not so much for size, but for the paragenesis. The base is a big, very intense pink colored rhodochrosite crystal. It seems like a bunch of fine, elongated rock crystals are protruding from that, hosting several smaller, paler pink rhodochrosite crystals and dark brown, columnar hübnerite crystals, of which one is very attractively set in the middle.

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

Hübnerite

Formula: 
MnWO4
Strunz: 
4.DB.30
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
4.0 - 4.5
Type Locality: 
Erie and Enterprize veins, Ellsworth Mine, Ellsworth, Ellsworth District (Mammoth District), Paradise Range, Nye Co., Nevada, USA

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
7.0
Streak: 
White

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