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| DESCRIPTION: | No. 21305 |
| Mineral: | Rhodochrosite |
| Locality: | Sweet Home Mine, Buckskin Gulch, Alma District, Park County, Colorado |
| Description: | Lustrous transparent pink rhombohedral rhodochrosite crystals to 15 mm with colorless cubo-octahedral transparent fluorite crystals to 2 mm scattered over the surfaces. A few rhodochrosite crystals have cleaved edges, but has good color and transparency. Ex. P. Santillo |
| Overall Size: | 7x6x3.5 cm |
| Crystals: | 1-15 mm |
| Archived: | For reference only |
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