Rhodochrosite
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Rhodochrosite
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- Availability
- Sold
- Size
- 6 x 6 x 3.5 cm - Sm Cabinet
- Formula
- MnCO3 (RRUFF)
- Locality
- Mendip Hills, Somerset, England
Older specimen from Barstow. This piece shows typical Mendip Hill manganese oxide matrix with large vugs lined with light pink Rhodochrosite matrix with what looks like a bluish Calcite crystal to 4mm and black acicular crystals along side it.
Rhodochrosite
- Formula
- MnCO3
- Crystal System
- Trigonal
- Crystal Habit
- Massive - Granular, Columnar, Botryoidal
- Cleavage
- Perfect, Perfect, Perfect
- Luster
- Vitreous (Glassy)
- Color
- pinkish red, red, rose red, yellowish gray, brown
- Streak
- white
- Class
- Trigonal - Hexagonal Scalenohedral
- Fracture
- Brittle - Conchoidal
- Hardness
- 3
Data courtesy of Webmineral.
- Collection
- Phillips Collection
Ex. Richard Barstow
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