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Rhodochrosite

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Rhodochrosite

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Description
Locality: 
Baia Sprie Mine, Baia Sprie, Maramureș County, Romania
Size Range: 
Museum (18cm plus)
Size: 
18 × 8 × 5 cm
Description

On a matrix of sparkling white quartz, which has a very nice sculptural quality, is a crust of rich pale pink, lustrous, intergrown, platy crystals, of rhodochrosite, which have formed flower-like, rosettes. With white manganocalcite and nice quartz crystals.Ex Hoffman collection - acquired 1976

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