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Rhodonite In Galena

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Rhodonite In Galena

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Description
Locality: 
Proprietary Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
12 × 5.8 × 4.2 cm
Description

A large blocky 5.5cm rhodonite crystal, with a rich dark red colour sits at one end of a mass of dull grey galena, dotted with black sphalerite and numerous smaller rhodonite crystal. this is an old time specimen originally in the Jose Rees Collection (Sydney)

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Rhodonite

Formula: 
MnSiO3
Strunz: 
9.DK.05
Crystal System: 
Triclinic
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Kaiser Franz Mine (König Wilhelm Mine), Schävenholz (Schebenholz; Schäbenholz), Elbingerode, Harz, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Galena

Formula: 
PbS
Strunz: 
2.CD.10
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
2.5
Colour: 
Lead-grey
Streak: 
Lead-grey
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