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Rhodochrosite

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Locality: 
Stratoni Operations, Cassandra Mines, Aristotelis, Chalkidiki, Central Macedonia, Greece
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.7 × 4.1 × 1.5 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.50cm
Weight: 
21.00gr
Description

A very elegant specimen of pale sulphide matrix (mostly pyrite and quartz) with one side fully covered with columnar stacks of rhodochrosite rounded rhombohedrons. 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 50+ years old Swiss stock, which confirms its old age.

Very scarce nowadays, this is true connisseur material. Exceptionally - and only for this auction - with no reserve price!

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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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