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Rhodochrosite With Shigaite On Baryte

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Rhodochrosite With Shigaite On Baryte

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Description
Locality: 
NChwaning I Mine, Kuruman, Kalahari, Northern Cape Province, South Africa
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.3 × 2 × 3 cm
Weight: 
34.87gr
Description

The specimen is a wedge shaped shard of matrix with a narrow botryoidal covering of pink rhodochrosite. Attached on one edge there is a half rhombic crystals of baryte with two shigaite crystals attached. The rhodochrosite material is drusy and made up of small prismatic crystals with a colour shift in their terminations. The crystals are tiny but sparkly and gemmy.

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

Shigaite

Formula: 
Mn6Al3(OH)18[Na(H2O)6][SO4]2·6H2O
Strunz: 
7.DD.35
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Ioi mine, Ritto City, Shiga Prefecture, Kinki Region, Honshu Island, Japan

Baryte

Formula: 
BaSO4
Strunz: 
7.AD.35
Hardness: 
3.0 - 3.5
Streak: 
White

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