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Rhodochrosite

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Rhodochrosite

With Antique Label

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Description
Locality: 
Heddleston, Seven-Up Pete Creek, Lewis & Clark County, Montana, United States of America
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6 × 6 × 3.8 cm
Description

Beautiful pink old rhodochrosite specimen with nice crystlas in several vugs.

Specimen comes with nice old label, specimen was acquired 1958.

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