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Calcite With Quartz & Rhodochrosite

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Calcite With Quartz & Rhodochrosite

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Description
Locality: 
Laki, Laki Obshtina, Plovdiv Oblast, Bulgaria
Class: 
Combination
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7.5 × 5.2 × 3.2 cm
Description

A fantastic specimen from a single pocket find!The piece hosts a large, sharp, lustrous scalenohedra calcite on matrix of quartz!The calcite is twinned, cream colored, with superb geometry and symmetry!The piece is covered on the back and on the bottom with yellow rhodochrosite!Yes, it's not rhodochrosite covered by oxides, it's yellow in color!The piece is a fully terminated undamaged flowter!My best from the find, for my taste!

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Calcite

Polymorph of: 
Formula: 
CaCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.0
Streak: 
White

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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