Rhodochrosite
specimen number:
9851030
location:
N'Chwaning Mines, Northern Cape, South Africa
description: A beautiful cluster of glassy gem red scalenohedral rhodochrosite crystals. Slight cleaving on the terminations are present as seen, this quite typical of these. Collected in the 1970s.
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