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Rhodochrosite

Classic Locality

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Description
Locality: 
Madem-Lakkos Mine, Chalkidiki Prefecture, Central Macedonia, Greece
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.7 × 3.6 × 1.8 cm
Description

Interesting stalactitic crystals of pale pink, lustrous rhodochrosite. Specimens from this locality are now classics and even the stashes in old locals are now exhausted. You will only see rhodos from this locality for a short time and then there will be nothing. Now is your chance to get one.

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

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