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Rhodochrosite

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Description
Locality: 
Madem-Lakko Mine, Cassandra Mines, Aristotelis, Chalkidiki, Central Macedonia, Greece
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5 × 4.5 × 2 cm
Description

Here is an excellent old time specimen from the Cassandra mines in Chalkidiki that I decided to auction. The piece hosts lustrous formations like tufts, which are actually composed of small, stacked crystals of rhodochrosite. Very good aesthetics and excellent, unusual locality style.

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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