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Tobi
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What are your favourite localities for RHODOCHROSITE? My favourites are:
- Sweet Home Mine (Home Sweet Home Mine), Mount Bross, Alma District, Park Co., Colorado, USA (I hope one day to own a nice specimen from that mine, to me the rhodos from Sweet Home Mine are the most beautiful minerals on this planet)
- Uchucchacua Mine, Oyon Province, Lima Department, Peru
- N'Chwaning Mines, Kuruman, Kalahari manganese field, Northern Cape Province, South Africa
- Bockenrod, Reichelsheim, Odenwald, Hesse, Germany (not many of you may know that locality in southern Hesse, but I simply love the botryoidal material from there, just look at the attached photos)
Feel free not only to discuss your favourite localities but also which forms and colours of that mineral you like the most, e.g. rhombohedrons or scalenohedrons or botryoidal forms, red or pink colour etc. ...
| Mineral: | Rhodochrosite |
| Locality: | | Uchucchacua Mine, Oyón Province, Lima Department, Peru |  |
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| Mineral: | Rhodochrosite |
| Locality: | | Bockenrod, Reichelsheim, Odenwald, Hesse/Hessen, Germany | |
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| Dimensions: | Specimen size 10 cm |
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| Collection Terra Mineralia, Freiberg (my photo) |
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| Mineral: | Rhodochrosite |
| Locality: | | Bockenrod, Reichelsheim, Odenwald, Hesse/Hessen, Germany | |
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| Dimensions: | Specimen size 9 cm |
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| Private collection, on display in the Mineralogical Museum Marburg (my photo) |
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| Mineral: | Rhodochrosite |
| Locality: | | Bockenrod, Reichelsheim, Odenwald, Hesse/Hessen, Germany | |
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| Dimensions: | Specimen size 8 cm |
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| Mineral: | Rhodochrosite |
| Locality: | | N'Chwaning I Mine, N'Chwaning mining area, Kuruman, Kalahari manganese field (KMF), Northern Cape Province, South Africa | |
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| Dimensions: | Specimen size 15 cm |
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James Catmur
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| Posted: Aug 26, 2016 12:32 Post subject: Re: Favourite Rhodochrosites? |
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| I think the only one I have in my collection is from Crested Butte, CO. Not a well known locality! So I cannot really give a view.
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Fiebre Verde
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| Posted: Aug 26, 2016 13:58 Post subject: Re: Favourite Rhodochrosites? |
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I like the ones from
- Wolf Mine, Herdorf, Siegerland, Renania-Palatinado/Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
which I have never seen in person (pictures only)
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lluis
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| Posted: Aug 26, 2016 14:16 Post subject: Re: Favourite Rhodochrosites? |
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Agreed with Fiebre Verde! I like those from Wolf Mine (and I own one or two), I suppose that because are rare to be found and aesthetically nice. Those from Uchuqchacua look generally very nice, as the ones from Alma and those from USA in general. But those from N'Chawning Mine are very nice and extremely pricey...
All in all, I like all them (maybe except those from China....Not so nice too my eyes, and some, heavily man touched.....)...
I always have room for a new Rhodo (and if from a still not had locale, better!)
With best wishes
Lluís
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Tobi
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| Posted: Aug 26, 2016 14:26 Post subject: Re: Favourite Rhodochrosites? |
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| Fiebre Verde wrote: | I like the ones from
- Wolf Mine, Herdorf, Siegerland, Renania-Palatinado/Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
which I have never seen in person (pictures only) |
You should visit the Mineralogical Museum of Marburg, they have several superb specimens :-)
| lluis wrote: | | [...]very nice, as the ones from Alma and those from USA in general. But those from N'Chawning Mine are very nice and extremely pricey... |
That's my problem with the ones from Sweet Home Mine, the prices are insane :-(
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Les Presmyk
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| Posted: Aug 26, 2016 14:33 Post subject: Re: Favourite Rhodochrosites? |
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Here is one from Paula's thumbnail collection.
| Mineral: | Rhodocrosite |
| Locality: | | N'Chwaning I Mine, N'Chwaning mining area, Kuruman, Kalahari manganese field (KMF), Northern Cape Province, South Africa | |
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| Dimensions: | 2.8 cm tall |
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Fiebre Verde
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| Posted: Aug 26, 2016 14:37 Post subject: Re: Favourite Rhodochrosites? |
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| Gorgeous!!!
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Les Presmyk
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| Posted: Aug 26, 2016 14:40 Post subject: Re: Favourite Rhodochrosites? |
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| On behalf of my lovely wife, I thank you.
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Debbie Woolf
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| Posted: Aug 26, 2016 17:04 Post subject: Re: Favourite Rhodochrosites? |
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| It's a beauty!
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Gail
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| Posted: Aug 26, 2016 17:55 Post subject: Re: Favourite Rhodochrosites? |
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A nice South African Rhodo, a gift from my husband.
| Mineral: | Rhodochrosite |
| Locality: | | N'Chwaning mining area, Kuruman, Kalahari manganese field (KMF), Northern Cape Province, South Africa | |
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| Dimensions: | 5.5x7.0x3.5 cm. |
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Gail
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| Posted: Aug 26, 2016 17:58 Post subject: Re: Favourite Rhodochrosites? |
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Wutong mine, China. One of my top minerals.
Photo by Tom Spann
| Mineral: | Rhodochrosite |
| Locality: | | Wutong Mine, Liubao, Cangwu, Wuzhou Prefecture, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China | |
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| Dimensions: | 22.5x16.8x17.5 cm |
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Gail
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| Posted: Aug 26, 2016 17:59 Post subject: Re: Favourite Rhodochrosites? |
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_Me with previous rhodochrosite. Back in the day.
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Gail
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| Posted: Aug 26, 2016 18:01 Post subject: Re: Favourite Rhodochrosites? |
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Fabulous Rhodo.
| Mineral: | Rhodochrosite |
| Locality: | | N'Chwaning mining area, Kuruman, Kalahari manganese field (KMF), Northern Cape Province, South Africa | |
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| Dimensions: | About 6 x 3 cm |
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crocoite
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| Posted: Aug 26, 2016 18:26 Post subject: Re: Favourite Rhodochrosites? |
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Broken Hill, New South Wales, has produced some nice ones...
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Don Lum
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| Posted: Aug 26, 2016 23:15 Post subject: Re: Favourite Rhodochrosites? |
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| Gail wrote: | | Me with previous rhodochrosite. Back in the day. |
Stunning !!! From the same pocket as The Emperor of China?
Don
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