| AllMinerals/JohnBetts-FineMinerals > Online Mineral Museum Photographic Archive > Minerals from Colorado > Rhodochrosite on Sphalerite with Pyrite |
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| DESCRIPTION: | No. 78442 |
| Mineral: | Rhodochrosite on Sphalerite with Pyrite |
| Locality: | Eagle Mine, Gilman District, Eagle County, Colorado |
| Description: | Lustrous rhombohedral pink-gray rhodochrosite crystals to 7 mm on dark sphalerite crystals to 1 mm with a few yellow-metallic cubic pyrite crystals to 3.5 mm with epitactic overgrowth of dark microcrystals, probably a second generation of sphalerite. Collected ca. 1985 |
| Overall Size: | 27x24x16 mm |
| Crystals: | micro to 7 mm |
| Archived: | For reference only |
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