Rhodochrosite
Potosí Mine, Francisco Portillo, West Camp, Santa Eulalia Mining District, Aquiles Serdán Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
2.8 x 2.8 x 2.2 cm. Rhodochrosite specimens from the El Potosi's famous finds of the 1970s and 1980s are Mexican classics. On this showy thumbnail, we have two stout, cherry-red, gemmy, tapered scalenohedrons, to 1.0 cm, that are perched atop the sulfide matrix. The highly lustrous rhodochrosites have dense, stepped-growth faces, which add ...
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