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Rhodochrosite With Quartz

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Rhodochrosite With Quartz

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Description
Locality: 
Batantsi Mine, Madan, Smolyan Oblast, Bulgaria
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3 × 2.6 × 1.5 cm
Description

A superb miniature from a defunct and finally famous European loaclity! The mine used to produce some of the best rhodochrosite specimens from the country and was the only one in the area to provide pieces with paragenesis of heulandite!This miniature is clean, unlike most, with fine pastel pink color! The crystals are obvious and form spheres!The overall aethetics are just great, with balanced position of the aggregates and no damage!Very hard to find this material today and it has to be compared with similar style to be accurately valued!

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

Quartz

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

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