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Rhodochrosite

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Rhodochrosite

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Description
Locality: 
Wessels Mine, Hotazel, Kalahari, Northern Cape Province, South Africa
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5 × 4.4 × 3.1 cm
Description

The Kalahari Manganese fields are most prominent for N´chwanng and for Wessels mine. N´chwaning is famous for Rhdochrosite, Wessels more for Hematite, Ettringite, Olmiite. You already own Rhodos from N´chwaning, also Ettringite and Olmiite ? - so maybe this would be a nice and uncommon addition. Rhodochrosite from Wessels is quite rare and this particular piece is really good for the - for Wessels - more intense pink color. Several spheres formed a very tri-dimensional and aesthetic cluster set on small matrix. There are no new discoveries since decades and this material was never very common, so really a very fine rarity. Undamaged.

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