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Manganoan Calcite With Pyrite

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Manganoan Calcite With Pyrite

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Description
Locality: 
NChwaning I Mine, Kuruman, Kalahari, Northern Cape Province, South Africa
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8.3 × 3.4 × 4.2 cm
Weight: 
107.90gr
Description

This is a specimen with a highly lustrous and vibrant pink manganese rich calcite (it may be rhodochrosite?), and minor pyrite from the Kalahari Manganese Field.  The manganocalcite fluoresces a bright orange under short-wave ultraviolet light.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Manganoan Calcite

Variety Of: 

Calcite

Formula: 
CaCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Hardness: 
3.0
Formula: 
(Ca,Mn)CO3
Hardness: 
0.0

Pyrite

Formula: 
FeS2
Strunz: 
2.EB.05a
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
6.0 - 6.5

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