RHODOCHROSITE MINERAL SPECIMEN
A Rhodochrosite Mineral Specimen. This specimen is just as it came from the ground, a chunk of rock with Pyrite, Calcite, Chalcopyrite and Galena.
Location:
Ancash Dept, Peru.
Dimensions:
18cm x 9cm x 12.3cm, 2850g.
Rhodochrosite: MnCO3.
Named in 1813 by Johann Friedrich Ludwig Hausmann from the Greek for rose and colouring.