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Rhodochrosite & Quartz

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Description
Locality: 
Sweet Home Mine, Alma District, Park County, Colorado, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7.9 × 6 × 4.2 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.90cm
Description

This beautiful specimen features numerous, raspberry-red rhombohedrons of rhodochrosite, scattered over a "race" of prismatic quartz. Both minerals are well developed, sharp edged and transparent-translucent. The terminations are in good shape as well. Not absolutely perfect but mostly undamaged and this is a good and contrastful specimen from the old finds at the famous Sweet Home Mine in Colorado. 

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

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
7.0
Streak: 
White
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