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Rhodochrosite & Baryte

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Rhodochrosite & Baryte

ex Fritz Wittling collection
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Description
Locality: 
NChwaning Mines, Kuruman, Northern Cape Province, South Africa
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.3 × 3.6 × 2.7 cm
Weight: 
94.00gr
Description

Wonderful pinkish rhodochrosite crystals overgrown an ore matrix. Over the rhodochrosite are scattered beige baryte crystals under 1cm length. The black dots are very small hausmannite crystals.

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

Baryte

Formula: 
BaSO4
Strunz: 
7.AD.35
Hardness: 
3.0 - 3.5
Streak: 
White