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Rhodochrosite & Quartz On Sphalerite

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Rhodochrosite & Quartz On Sphalerite

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Description
Locality: 
Sweet Home Mine, Alma District, Park County, Colorado, United States of America
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.4 × 2.5 × 1.7 cm
Description

A bright pink rhomb of rhodochrosite sitting neatly in the middle  of a cluster of gem clear needle like quartz crystals a top a stalactitic like cluster of black sphalerite 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
Earthstones Australia

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