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Rhodochrosite

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Description
Locality: 
Capillitas Vein, Capillitas, Andalgalá Department, Catamarca Province, Argentina
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
11.6 × 4.5 × 0.8 cm
Description

"Old time" specimen of beautiful, large, polished slice, cutted from a pink-red stalactite of rhodochrosite.
Ex  Robert Karl collection, Germany

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