Rhodochrosite

Sweet Home Mine, Alma, Park Co., Colorado
Toenail, 3.0 x 2.2 x 1.6 cm
Start Time: 08/12/2010 6:45:00 pm (CDT)
End Time: 08/19/2010 6:30:00 pm (CDT)
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Item Description

A cute rhodochrosite combination toenail from the famous and now-closed Sweet Home Mine. A gemmy and lustrous, 1.5 x 0.9 x 0.5 cm, tabular, pretty rose-red rhodo crystal is aesthetically set in a mounded matrix covered with needle quartz, brassy chalcopyrite crystals, dark gray tetrahedrite crystals and even a couple of intergrown, sea-green, fluorite cubes to 3 mm. The rhodo is nearly pristine, except for barely noticeable edgewear on a back corner of the termination and modest periphery wear at the base. A sweet Sweet Home combo piece!

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