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Rhodochrosite

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Locality: 
Stratoni Operations, Cassandra Mines, Aristotelis, Chalkidiki, Central Macedonia, Greece
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Museum (18cm plus)
Size: 
20.5 × 14.5 × 4.5 cm
Weight: 
2 269.00gr
Description

Almost 2.3 kg of massive rhodochrosite, full of crystals on the surface. This is surely the biggest and heaviest rhodochrosite specimen I've ever offered.

The baby-pink is nicer in nature, I think. The surface crystals - up to 1.8 cm high - give it a nice satiny look (unfortunately with some brown manganoan oxide stains - but this is nature ...).

Contact marks only at the side, where it was broken off the rock (or more rhodochrosite in this case).

Shipping to Africa, Asia, Australia a.o. might be a few Euros more expensive. If this is important to you, please enquire.

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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