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Arsenopyrite Rhodochrosite & Quartz

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Arsenopyrite Rhodochrosite & Quartz

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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: 
6.2 × 4.5 × 2.5 cm
Description

Fine and old, classic, combo specimen with elongated crystals of arsenopyrite on pastel pinkish rhodochrosite crystals, associated with quartz and minor other sulphides in the matrix. The arsenopyrite crystals have an unidentified metallic mineral on their faces but it is too small for me to identify it.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Arsenopyrite

Formula: 
FeAsS
Strunz: 
2.EB.20
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.0

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

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