Origin: Fluorite Raise, Sweet Home mine, Alma, Colorado, United States
Sample size: 8 x 6 x 3 cm (top), 5 x 3 x 1.5 cm (2nd row), 4 x 3 x 2.3 cm (3rd
row), 3.5 x 3.5 x 2 cm (4th row), 6 x 4.5 x 2 cm (5th row), 10.5 x 9 x 3.5 cm
(6th row), 5.5 x 4 x 2.5 cm (7th row), 9 x 9 x 2.5 cm (bottom)
Origin: Mini King Raise, Sweet Home mine, Alma, Colorado, United States
Sample size: 9 x 6 x 4 cm
Origin: Main Stope, Sweet Home mine, Alma, Colorado, United States
Sample size: 7 x 4 x 3.5 cm
Origin: Main Vein, Sweet Home mine, Alma, Colorado, United States
Sample size: 9 x 5.5 x 3 cm
Botryoidal habit pinkish red rhodochrosite
Origin: Oppu mine, Aomori, Honshu Island, Japan
Ex. George W. Fisher Collection
Sample size: 5 x 3 x 3 cm
Origin: Carrieres Desourdy, Mont Saint Hilaire, Rouville, Quebec, Canada
Erling Collection
Sample size: 2 cm
Origin: Poudrette Quarry, Mont St. Hilaire, Quebec, Canada
Sample size: 1 cm long by 1 mm thick (left), 8 mm long by 2 mm thick (right)
Origin: Silverton, Colorado, United States
Sample size: 2 x 1.5 cm x 4 mm
Dakota Matrix Minerals
The bottom of the specimen is crystalline
quartz
and 2-4 mm crystals of
fluorite.
The upper portions of the specimen are covered in bladed crystals of
rhodochrosite.
Origin: Quilin, Guang Xi Province, China
Sample size: 7 x 4.7 x 4.7 cm
John Veevaert, Trinity Mineral Co
Origin: N'Chwaning II Mine, Kalahari Fields, Northern Cape Province,
South Africa
Ex. Willard Perkins, John & Linda Stimson collection
Sample size: 2.8 x 1.7 x 1.4 cm
Origin: Uchucchacua Mine, Oyon Province, Lima Dept., Peru
Sample size: 6 x 3.6 x 2.1 cm