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Rhodochrosite

Ex Alex Franz Collection (Germany)
With Antique Label

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Description
Locality: 
Stan Terg Mine, Trepča, Mitrovica District, Kosovo
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.7 × 4.5 × 1.5 cm
Description

A very beautiful specimen of salmon-pink rhodochrosite crystals (all over the specimen) and minor grey metalic boulangerite needles.

Very aesthetic ld specimen froma Alex Franz collection.

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