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Rhodochrosite

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Rhodochrosite

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Description
Locality: 
NChwaning II Mine, Kuruman, Kalahari, Northern Cape Province, South Africa
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
9.1 × 5.6 × 3.1 cm
Description

A massive plate of steel gray, metallic manganese ore is very richly covered with "wheat sheaf" shaped Rhodochrosite. Is is a very rare habit of N´Chwaning-Rhodo and came out in a relatively small pocket at the beginning of the 1980s. The Rhodochrosite is excellent defined, razor sharp and mirror bright. This circumstance gives this stunning specimen a superb glistening surface. Of course the complete display side is pristine. The colour is a rather unusual medium rasberry red. This is a super piece for highest aesthetic demands and such items are treasured nowadays and consequently exceeding hard to come by.

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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