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Manganoan Calcite & Löllingite

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FRN131587

Manganoan Calcite & Löllingite

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Description
Locality: 
Huanggang Mine, Hexigten Banner, Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia, China (Peoples Republic)
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.8 × 5.4 × 4.9 cm
Description

Nice cluster of slightly pink, razor-shape calcite crystals showing a very flattened rhombohedron habit and with a cluster of bladed shear-shaped crystals of silver white lollingite on the bottom. The calcite is fluorescent pink under the UV light.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Manganoan Calcite

Variety Of: 

Calcite

Formula: 
CaCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Hardness: 
3.0
Formula: 
(Ca,Mn)CO3
Hardness: 
0.0

Löllingite

Formula: 
FeAs2
Strunz: 
2.EB.15a
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
5.0 - 5.5
Type Locality: 
Wolfbau Mine, Lölling District, Hüttenberger Erzberg, Hüttenberg, Friesach - Hüttenberg area, Carinthia, Austria
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