Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Rhodochrosite & Friedelite

Views:
Watches:
JYJ851453

Rhodochrosite & Friedelite

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
NChwaning Mines, Kuruman, Northern Cape Province, South Africa
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4 × 3.7 × 3.3 cm
Description

Pink rhodochrosite associated with brown orange-brown friedelite and caryopilite. 

Analysed specimen. Analysis in the analytical section. SXRD & EDS confirmed. 

 

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

Friedelite

Formula: 
(Mn,Fe)8Si6O15(OH,Cl)10
Strunz: 
9.EE.10
Hardness: 
4.0 - 5.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Montagne d'Azet, Aderville, Louron Valley, Hautes-Pyrénées, Midi-Pyrénées, France...
Analysis
Analysis Report - only: Rhodochrosite & Friedelite
Analysis Report - only: Rhodochrosite & Friedelite