Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Rhodochrosite

Views:
Watches:
SUR28644

Rhodochrosite

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Ushkatan #3 Deposit, Zhayrem, Karazhal, Karaganda Oblast, Kazakhstan
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3 × 2 × 1 cm
Description

A thick crust of botryoidal rhodochrosite with pearly lustre and rasberry red colour.

This was a one-off find over 10 years ago and is now scarce.

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
Surrey Minerals