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Rhodonite

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Description
Locality: 
Treburland Mine, Altarnun, Cornwall, United Kingdom
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
9 × 6 × 1 cm
Weight: 
159.00gr
Description

Cut and polished (one side) slice of bright pink rhodonite from this well known Cornish locality

Typical quartz/pyrolusite veining and accessory yellowish brown Mn silicates

Locality no longer accessible as dumps removed

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Rhodonite

Formula: 
MnSiO3
Strunz: 
9.DK.05
Crystal System: 
Triclinic
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Kaiser Franz Mine (König Wilhelm Mine), Schävenholz (Schebenholz; Schäbenholz), Elbingerode, Harz, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

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