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Rhodochrosite On Quartz With Sphalerite

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Rhodochrosite On Quartz With Sphalerite

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Description
Locality: 
Sweet Home Mine, Alma District, Park County, Colorado, United States of America
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.5 × 4.6 × 2.6 cm
Description

A single dark pink rhodochrosite rhomb pierced by a needle quartz crystal  on the edge of a plate of  quartz crystals that also surround a cluster of sphalerite and small chalcopyrite crystals

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

Sphalerite

Formula: 
ZnS
Strunz: 
2.CB.05a
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
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