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Rhodochrosite

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Description
Locality: 
Uchucchacua Mine, Oyon Province, Lima Department, Peru
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.6 × 4.5 × 3.3 cm
Description

An aesthetic Uchucchacua Mine specimen features  lustrous, gemmy, cherry-red rhodochrosite crystals, contrastful on black manganese-rich matrix. The rhodos are well developed, very sharp edged and exact terminated. A good and colourful specimen in excellent shape from the great old times of that famous Peruvian locale.

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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