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Rhodochrosite

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Description
Locality: 
Stratoni Operations, Cassandra Mines, Aristotelis, Chalkidiki, Central Macedonia, Greece
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
9.3 × 10.4 × 6 cm
Largest Crystal: 
4.00cm
Description

Very nice and interesting pale pink rhodochrosite specimen with more generations of rhodochrosite, the latest one in form of elongated stalactites covering the surface of original scalenohedral crystals up to 4 cm tall on matrix from Stratoniki in Greece. The terminations show no visible damage 

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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