Rhodochrosite with Quartz
specimen number:
4981016
location:
Hedgehog pocket, Sweet Home mine, Park Co., Colorado, USA
description:
Attractive reddish pink partly gemmy lustrous rhombohedral crystals of rhodochrosite measuring to 1.5 cm in size across the top of this crystallized quartz and sulfide matrix. Cleaving is present, this still very pretty.
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