Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Pyrite & Rhodochrosite

Views:
Watches:
MGR646306

Pyrite & Rhodochrosite

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Madem-Lakkos Mine, Chalkidiki Prefecture, Central Macedonia, Greece
Class: 
Combination
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.8 × 2.4 × 1.5 cm
Description

A very colorful combination of pink rhodochrosite and sharp terminated pyrite in the center. The pyrite shows iridiscent colors, all afces are very glossy. A really nice specimen! Material from the locality is hard to obtain! No significant damages to report.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Pyrite

Formula: 
FeS2
Strunz: 
2.EB.05a
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
6.0 - 6.5

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