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Rhodochrosite

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Description
Locality: 
Sweet Home Mine, Alma District, Park County, Colorado, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8.5 × 5.5 × 4.5 cm
Description

This nice specimen features numerous, pale raspberry-red rhombohedrons of rhodochrosite, scattered over a "race" of prismatic quartz.

Not absolutely perfect but this is a good and contrastful specimen from the old finds at the famous Sweet Home Mine in Colorado. 

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