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Rhodochrosite

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Rhodochrosite

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Description
Locality: 
Cavnic Mine, Maramureș County, Romania
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.5 × 3.6 × 2.4 cm
Description

Rhodochrosite is generally more rare from Cavnic and this particular specimen shows very good color for the locality. I did photography under day-light, under artificial light in a cabinet color would become vene better. The intergrown crystals form two spheres of rhodochrosite, crystals are partly glossy. Undamaged, bottom was extracted from the rock.

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