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English: Group of transparent, sharp, well-defined, bright pink rhodonite crystals, associated with more than a dozen colorless and bright quartz crystals, upon a matrix formed by brown to black sphalerite and minor pyrite. The entire specimen measures 53mm x 52mm x 40mm, and the main rhodonite crystals are approximately 10mm tall, 6mm wide, and 1mm thick. Mass: 112g. It comes from the 2007 find at the Chiurucu mine, where mining works stopped long ago, and not far from the famous Huanzala mine, in the district of Huallanca, Peru.
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Rhodonite with quartz, sphalerite and pyrite

6 December 2020

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