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Rhodochrosite & Quartz

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Rhodochrosite & Quartz

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Description
Locality: 
Madem-Lakkos Mine, Chalkidiki Prefecture, Central Macedonia, Greece
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
10.6 × 8.5 × 3.9 cm
Description

Light pink tiny rhodochrosite crystals on light grey quartz from this rare locality. Nice contrast and it is not very common, that you can get rhodochrosite on matrix from Greece. No significant damages to report.

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