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Rhodochrosite On Quartz

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Rhodochrosite On Quartz

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Description
Locality: 
Sunnyside Mine Group, Bonita Peak, Gladstone, San Juan County, Colorado, United States of America
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.2 × 2.3 × 1.3 cm
Description

Two sparkling white mountains of druzy snow white quartz are topped with pink caps of rhodochrosite crystals that flow down the sides of the twin peaks

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
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