Rhodochrosite

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This is a highly unusual rhodochrosite that would be very hard to place by locality, if handed to you without a label. The color is typical of MSH, but the stark rhombohedral habit is not. In fact, this is one of only a very few from here I have seen, with sharp and untwinned crystals. It has a robust, brick red color and sharp form. The rhodochrosite is on a feldspar matrix. Old material, from the Bob Whitmore Collection. Joe Budd photos.