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Quartz With Rhodochrosite

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FRN99698

Quartz With Rhodochrosite

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Description
Locality: 
Hezhou Prefecture, Guangxi, China (Peoples Republic)
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.6 × 2.3 × 1.8 cm
Description

Lustrous, intense pink, rhombs of rhodochrosite crystals are aesthetically set on the matrix scattered with microcrystalline pyrite. A cluster of sharp, translucence quartz set on the side of the specimen.

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
Oriental Minerals