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Rhodonite & Manganese Pyroxene Group

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Rhodonite & Manganese Pyroxene Group

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Description
Locality: 
Kurganovskoe, Ekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russian Federation
Class: 
Cut Stone
Size Range: 
Museum (18cm plus)
Size: 
19 × 11 × 3 cm
Description

Beautiful cut and polished huge 713g heavy Rhodonite in contrast with black Manganese Pyroxen from Kurganovskoe, Ekaterinburg in Russia

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Rhodonite

Formula: 
MnSiO3
Strunz: 
9.DK.05
Crystal System: 
Triclinic
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Kaiser Franz Mine (König Wilhelm Mine), Schävenholz (Schebenholz; Schäbenholz), Elbingerode, Harz, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Pyroxene Group

Group Members: 
Clinopyroxene Subgroup
Orthopyroxene Subgroup