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Rhodochrosite & Galena

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Rhodochrosite & Galena

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Description
Locality: 
Potosí Mine, Francisco Portillo, Santa Eulalia, Aquiles Serdán Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.5 × 5.1 × 3.9 cm
Description

This is a fine combination piece, so typical for this great Mexican locale. A bunch of light raspberry-red, glassy, multifaced and sharp crystals of Rhodochrosite, accompanied by also multifaced, high metallic lustrous, steel-gray Galena and black striated crystals of Sphalerite. All major crystals of the main species are undamaged and the overall condition of this great specimen is superb.

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

Galena

Formula: 
PbS
Strunz: 
2.CD.10
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
2.5
Colour: 
Lead-grey
Streak: 
Lead-grey
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