Rhodochrosite

 
Rhodochrosite with quartz
  
Rhodochrosite with fluorite
  
Rhodochrosite and galena
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
Rhodochrosite with tetrahedrite and quartz
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)
 
Rhodochrosite with quartz
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
 
Rhodochrosite with chalcopyrite and quartz
Origin: Main Vein, Sweet Home mine, Alma, Colorado, United States
Sample size: 9 x 5.5 x 3 cm
 
Rhodochrosite with fluorite, pyrite and quartz
 
  
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
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Tom Loomis

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
 

Photo courtesy of: 

John Veevaert, Trinity Mineral Co

Trinityminerals.com

 

  
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
 
  
Rhodochrosite with fluorite
Origin: Uchucchacua Mine, Oyon Province, Lima Dept., Peru
Sample size: 6 x 3.6 x 2.1 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone

 

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