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Rhodochrosite & Hausmannite

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Rhodochrosite & Hausmannite

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Description
Locality: 
Ushkatyn, Zhayrem, Karazhal, Karaganda Oblast, Kazakhstan
Class: 
Combination
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
10.3 × 5.3 × 3.5 cm
Description

Very nice and rare combination of raspberry-colored rhodochrosite and glossy black hausmannite (visual ID - based on the luster - could be another manganese ore).

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

Hausmannite

Formula: 
Mn2+Mn3+2O4
Strunz: 
4.BB.10
Hardness: 
5.5
Type Locality: 
Oehrenstock (Öhrenstock), Langewiesen, Ilmenau District, Thuringian Forest, Thuringia, Germany

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