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Rhodochrosite

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Description
Locality: 
Silverton, Animas, San Juan County, Colorado, United States of America
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6 × 4.5 × 1.6 cm
Weight: 
29.00gr
Description

A crystallized crust of curved rhodochrosite crystals of light pink colour, good satin lustre and free of damages. They are associated to some lustrous quartz crystals of white colour.

Ex Georges Vanacker* museum, it comes with the original label (specimen V-727).

*Vanackerite from Tsumeb was named after him.

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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