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Rhodonite With Galena

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Rhodonite With Galena

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Description
Locality: 
Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.2 × 3 × 1.8 cm
Description

This material is getting rarer and rarer and it's the best you can get for the species, with only a few Brazilian specimens being of also very high quality!This miniature has several crystals on matrix of garnets and galena!The crystals are lustrous and gemmy and with very good form!They have very fine red color and are transparent to translucent with no backlight needed!In very good condition, only marginal contacting!

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

Galena

Formula: 
PbS
Strunz: 
2.CD.10
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
2.5
Colour: 
Lead-grey
Streak: 
Lead-grey

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