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Quartz On Rhodochrosite

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Quartz On Rhodochrosite

self collected

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Description
Locality: 
Beschert Glück Mine, Zug, Freiberg, Mittelsachsen, Saxony, Germany
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4 × 6 × 4 cm
Description

A matrix of partially oxidized rhodochrosite is overgrown with lustrous milky quartz crystals. On the Quartz crystals sit white tabular calcite crystals. A very typical sample of the vein type "Edle Braunspatformation" of Freiberg district.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
7.0
Streak: 
White

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

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Marco Drechsel

SPK Mittelsachsen

SWIFT/BIC-Code: WELADED1FGX

IBAN: DE49 870520004111076110