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Rhodochrosite with Quartz, Sphalerite, Chalcopyrite from Sweet Home Mine, Buckskin Gulch, Alma District, Park County, Colorado

 
Rhodochrosite with Quartz, Sphalerite, Chalcopyrite from Sweet Home Mine, Buckskin Gulch, Alma District, Park County, Colorado

Rhodochrosite with Quartz, Sphalerite, Chalcopyrite from Sweet Home Mine, Buckskin Gulch, Alma District, Park County, Colorado

Rhodochrosite with Quartz, Sphalerite, Chalcopyrite from Sweet Home Mine, Buckskin Gulch, Alma District, Park County, Colorado

Rhodochrosite with Quartz, Sphalerite, Chalcopyrite from Sweet Home Mine, Buckskin Gulch, Alma District, Park County, Colorado

DESCRIPTION:No. 48555
Mineral:Rhodochrosite with Quartz, Sphalerite, Chalcopyrite
Locality:Sweet Home Mine, Buckskin Gulch, Alma District, Park County, Colorado
Description:Transparent pink rhombohedral rhodochrosite crystals to 13 mm with slender colorless transparent quartz crystals to 3 mm, black complex sphalerite crystals to 4 mm and brassy-metallic chalcopyrite crystals to 2 mm.
Overall Size:6x3.5x3.5 cm
Crystals:1-13 mm
Archived: For reference only

 

 

 

 

 

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