A Geoscience Digital Image Library
A Geoscience Digital Image Library
| Title | Rhodochrosite, quartz and alabandite from Transylvania |
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| Description | The pink mineral in the vug is rhodocrosite, MnCO3 (manganese carbonate). It is surronded by gray quartz and black alabandite, MnS (manganese sulfied, on the edges of the specimen). Rhodocrosite and quartz are relatively common but alabandite is a rare mineral. This specimen is 8 cm across and comes from a manganese ore body. |
| Location | Transylvania. Near Nagyag. |
| Photographer | Darla Sondrol. 2001-07-11. |
| Collection | University of North Dakota Mineralogy Collection #172. |
| Key words | alabandite, quartz, rhodocrosite, Transylvania |
| Tech details | 560 KB. Hand specimen. Fujifilm FinePix S1Pro digital camera; 60mm AF Nikon micro lens. |
| GeoDIL number | 1149 |
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