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Rhodochrosite

Former collection Lehmann (CH)
Gem Crystal

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Description
Locality: 
Potosí Mine, Francisco Portillo, Santa Eulalia, Aquiles Serdán Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.6 × 4.1 × 3.5 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.20cm
Weight: 
92.00gr
Description

A lovely miniature featuring a geode filled with dozens of gemmy scalenohedral rhodochrosite crystals of excellent quality and lustre. Textbook habitus and great transparency, most of them show a rather deep pink/purple color. On the back of the specimen, a couple of good scalenohedral crystals of pale red color, also with good lustre.
Really rich, some individuals are isolated and prone to macro photography. 

A fantastic little specimen of very high quality. From the former Lehmann (CH) and my collection, it is easily dated back to the late 80s-early 90s. 

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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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