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Pyrochroite & Calcite

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Pyrochroite & Calcite

Ex. PAGANO Collection
Classic Locality

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Description
Locality: 
Wessels Mine, Hotazel, Kalahari, Northern Cape Province, South Africa
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.5 × 3 × 2.5 cm
Description

Excellent specimen richly decorated with dark red-brown pyrochroite plates covering a calcite crystal area. Nearly the whole frontside of the specimen is covered with pyrochroite crystals. Rarely seen from that famous locality. Very richly decorated specimen.

Ex. Renato & Adriana PAGANO collection.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Pyrochroite

Formula: 
Mn(OH)2
Strunz: 
4.FE.05
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0
Type Locality: 
Pajsberg Mine, Pajsberg, Persberg district, Filipstad, Värmland, Sweden

Calcite

Polymorph of: 
Formula: 
CaCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.0
Streak: 
White

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