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Rhodochrosite With Calcite

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Rhodochrosite With Calcite

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Description
Locality: 
Baia Sprie Mine, Baia Sprie, Maramureș County, Romania
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7.2 × 9.6 × 4.3 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.70cm
Weight: 
381.00gr
Description

Very aesthetic specimen of rhodochrosite with calcite from Baia Sprie, Romania. Beautiful coverage of pink, finely crystalized rhodochrosite crystals covering a drusy of quartz from this classic hydrothermal paragenesis. On top of those, to increase the color contrast, dozens of calcite spheres. One of the spheres does not display full growth, and it shows in its core a dark wire, which possibly is a sulfide that served as nucleation centre for the calcite to form.

Beautiful and in excellent conditions, it comes from a Swiss collection we recently acquired. Collected in the 70s.

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

Calcite

Polymorph of: 
Formula: 
CaCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.0
Streak: 
White

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