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Rhodochrosite

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Rhodochrosite

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Description
Locality: 
Iron Monarch Open Cut, Iron Knob, Middleback Range, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia, Australia
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.3 × 3.7 × 1.2 cm
Description

A cavity in massive pink rhodochrosite is lined with amber coloured transparent rhodochrosite crystals with a couple of minor shigaite crystals also present. The unusual colour of the scalahedral rhodochrosite is due to manganese inclusions it has been suggested

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
Earthstones Australia

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