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Rhodochrosite On Quartz

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Rhodochrosite On Quartz

Ex Dr. Hans-Jürgen Wilke Collection
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Description
Locality: 
Silverton, Animas, San Juan County, Colorado, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7 × 5.3 × 3.1 cm
Description

What a great oldtimed Colorado specimen!!! Numerous of pink rhombohedrons of rhodochrosite covering a vug of white glistening quartz. This fact gives that gorgeous piece a contrastful dramatic. The rhodos are of course well developed, razor sharp and high lustrous. A super specimen.

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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