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Rhodochrosite

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Rhodochrosite

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Description
Locality: 
Stratoni Operations, Cassandra Mines, Aristotelis, Chalkidiki, Central Macedonia, Greece
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4.2 × 3.1 × 3 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.00cm
Weight: 
44.00gr
Description

A very elegant small miniature specimen featuring pink crystals of rhodochrosite pseudomorphing kutnohorite bowties. Rhodochrosite has a good lustre for the specie and it is in overall good conditions, provided some minor peripheral bruises.

Cassandra rhodochrosite with these features can be sporadically retrieved in older collections. This specimen comes from a recently acquired Italian lot, which ones belonged to an over 40 years old collection, confirmed by the wooden base and machine typed label (in Italian).  

Very scarce nowadays, this is true connisseur material. 

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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

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