Description: If you like Sweet Home mine rhodochrosites you´ll smile at me if I tell you that this is a very good Saxonian rhodochrosite sample. About 6,5 cm consisting of tiny saddle-shaped rhombs. From Alte Hoffnung Gottes mine, Kleinvoigtsberg, Freiberg district, Erzgebirge, Saxony. Rhodochrosite for itself is not that rare in Freiberg, but crystals are. Kleinvoigtsberg and Rothenfurth developed the best ones. Today it´s very hard to find any, this one I got at the Freiberg show in 2009. With two old labels (dating from 1901) - "Dialogit" is an old German name for rhodochrosite (being in use until approx. 1920).

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