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Quartz On Rhodochrosite

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Quartz On Rhodochrosite

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Description
Locality: 
Cavnic Mine, Maramureș County, Romania
Class: 
Combination
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
11.3 × 9.1 × 5.1 cm
Description

Countless, colourless crystals of Quartz are almost completely covering a matrix of pink Rhodochrosite. The Quartz is excellent developed, razor sharp and highly lustrous. The last circumstance give this aesthetic specimen a glistening look. This is a typical combination from the heydays of this great mine. Probably from the finds in the 1970s or 1980s.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Quartz

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

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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