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Rhodochrosite Hematite & Bementite

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Rhodochrosite Hematite & Bementite

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Description
Locality: 
Ushkatyn, Zhayrem, Karazhal, Karaganda Oblast, Kazakhstan
Class: 
Combination
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
9 × 3.7 × 3.7 cm
Description

Nice, deep pink-red rhodochrosite from Ushkatyn, cut and polished on one side. With metallic gray hematite and yellow-beige, massy bementite (visual ID) and eventually massy, creamy beige brandtite.

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

Hematite

Formula: 
Fe2O3
Strunz: 
4.CB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
5.0 - 6.0

Bementite

Formula: 
Mn7Si6O15(OH)8
Strunz: 
9.EE.05
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
6.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Trotter Mine (Lehigh Mine), Franklin Mine, Franklin, Franklin Mining District, Sussex Co., New Jersey, USA

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