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Rhodochrosite & Quartz

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Description
Locality: 
Madem-Lakko Mine, Cassandra Mines, Aristotelis, Chalkidiki, Central Macedonia, Greece
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.6 × 6 × 4.3 cm
Description

A picture is a thousand words...
Very nice rhodochrosite balls on(& in) matrix. The specimen has a cavity with rhodochrosite and quartz crystals. Quartz crystals are also present at the back of the specimen with smaller rhodochrosite balls.

A very nice display specimen.

Excluding the contact points which are not at the display side(s), there is no(or very minor) damage.

Old specimen, impossible to find now (from my own collection).

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