Pink rhodochrosite balls and isolated rhombohedral crystals on quartz. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 90 images.
A single lustrous red scalenohedral rhodochrosite crystal. Height of view 14.5mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Dark red spheres of rhodochrosite on white albite. Colourless crystals in the foreground and on the left may be pectolite. Minor green aegirine also present. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 38 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Grey hexagonal crystals of bastnäsite. Ex H. William “Bill” Meinert. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 88 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Pink rhodochrosite rosettes on quartz with minor sulphides. 38mm wide.
Collected September 1994. Pink rhombs of rhodochrosite with a couple of quartz crystals and a group of small pyrite crystals, all on a cluster of tetrahedrite crystals. Width of the specimen 18mm. Stack of 65 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Deep sharp red-brown rhombohedral crystals, one perched on aegirine crystal. There are also colourless reticulated crystals below right of centre. Maybe albite? One small area on top of rhodochrosite (not in photo) fluoresces orange. Ex Noel and Ann Kennon Collection. Ex Jean Pierre Beckerich. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of...
Very pale, almost colourless scalenohedra through to a nice mid-pink. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Pink drusy crystals of rhodochrosite coating acicular kutnohorite and white calcite that fluoresces red. 40x36x33mm.
Rings and curved crystals of boulangerite on pink rhodochrosite. Header image width of view is 5mm. Stack of 110 images. Second image is an old one, width of view 2.5mm and stack of 12.
Wedge-shaped reddish-brown rhodochrosite on and with natrolite, colourless tiny cubes of fluorite with small octahedral corners on thin acicular aegirine(?) (see first crop). Unidentified white platy crystals (see second crop). Width of view 7.5mm. Stack of 180 images.
Pale pink crystals. Width 18.5mm. Stack of 160 images. Acquired from Ian Graham in 1993.
Pale pink section of a stalactite. Interesting that there is pyrite on the outer edges. Width 18.5mm. Stack of 130 images. Acquired from Roger Webb at the Salamanca Market, Hobart, in 1993.
Deep orange-red sharp crystals. Ex Brian Shelton Collection. Photo widths 9mm and 5mm.
Rhodochrosite epimorphs after ?? With tiny quartz crystals. Ex Barry Johnson Collection. Video best viewed full screen.
Ex Barry Johnson Collection. Labelled as N’Chwaning II but should be N’Chwaning I according to Mindat. Video best viewed full screen.
Pink rhodochrosite with small white crystals (kutnohorite?). These white crystals are also included in the quartz. Ex Barry Johnson Collection. Video best viewed full screen.
Cream bertrandite with small pyrite cubes, black ferberite, and orange-brown rhodochrosite. Ex Barry Johnson Collection. Video best viewed full screen.
Ex Keith Williams, Williams Minerals. LB Collection.
Ex Milton Lavers collection. Exhibited at the Munich Show in 2008. Measures 65x65x35mm.
Lustrous deep red crystals on one face. Specimen measures 87x40x23mm. Closeup photo is 14mm across.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Mn-calcite/Ca-rhodochrosite pseudomorphing kutnohorite, Self-collected
Mn-calcite/Ca-rhodochrosite pseudomorphing kutnohorite, Self-collected
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
Platy zoned thin hexagonal rhodocrosite crystals with a dusting of pyrite, plus pyrite on the matrix. Ex Milton Lavers Collection #962. Includes label from when the specimen was on display at the Munich Mineral Show in 2008. Purchased at Ausrox and Crystal Classics Milton Lavers Collection sale day.
Cavities containing lustrous pink crystal groups.
Rhodochrosite inclusions in amethyst.
Identification confirmed by Jim Sharpe (XRD)
A mixture of Mn-rich calcite-Ca-rich rhodochrosite pseudomorphing kutnohorite, sitting on drusy quartz crystals. According to Ralph Bottrill, analyses showed Mn40Ca60 and Mn75Ca25 from XRD. This specimen is quite pale compared to others found on a field trip in 2005 so likely more towards calcite. The crystals also are zoned with a more...
Tiny reddish brown scalenohedral crystals of rhodochrosite scattered on manganite-mudstone, Moanda Mine, Moanda, Léboumbi-Leyou Department, Haut-Ogooué Province, Gabon. Ex A.G. Moss Collection, number 962 (with label and card).
