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Rhodonite & Braunite

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Rhodonite & Braunite

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Description
Locality: 
Brandsnuten, Botnedal, Tokke, Vestfold og Telemark, Norway
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.5 × 1.7 × 1.3 cm
Description

A zone of nice, grainy crystallized, pink coloured rhodonite is embedded in a dark grey fine grained mass of dark grey coloured braunite.

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

Braunite

Formula: 
Mn2+Mn3+6(SiO4)O8
Strunz: 
9.AG.05
Hardness: 
6.0 - 6.5
Streak: 
Black
Type Locality: 
Oehrenstock (Öhrenstock), Langewiesen, Ilmenau District, Thuringian Forest, Thuringia, Germany

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