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Quartz Rhodochrosite & Sturtite

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Quartz Rhodochrosite & Sturtite

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Description
Locality: 
Zinc Corporation Mine, Broken Hill, Yancowinna County, New South Wales, Australia
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.5 × 5.1 × 2.3 cm
Description

A matrix of dark chocolate brown to near black sturtite covered a domed matrix. Sparkling gemmy clear quartz crystals by the hundred are clustered  across this dark background and then finished off br bright pink rhodochrosite in a botyroidal grouping to one side of this handsome handspecimen

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
7.0
Streak: 
White

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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