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Rhodochrosite

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Rhodochrosite

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Description
Locality: 
Sunnyside Mine Group, Bonita Peak, Gladstone, San Juan County, Colorado, United States of America
Class: 
Combination
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
9.5 × 6.8 × 4 cm
Description

Pink Rhodochrosite crystals on snow white quartz crystals with galenite and chalcopyrite crystals from the famous mine in Colorado.

Ex Armin Wendland collection - acquired 1992

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