Rhodochrosite

Item Description

These new Chinese Rhodos made a big splash on the market several years ago. The specimens associated with Quartz and sulfides (like this one) really remind me of specimens I've seen from various mines in Colorado. If this Rhodo were from the Sweet Home mine, it would be a great treasure for many Colorado collectors, althoug the habit would be incorrect. This piece actually resembles the habit of Rhodochrosite found at the Eagle Mine, but on a matrix that resembles the Sweet Home mine. It features hundreds of sharp, pink, flattened rhomobohedra of Rhodochrosite "rosettes" on attractive Quartz crystals on sulfide matrix. You really don't see many of these Rhodos from Wutong available, so don't pass this one up because the locality has produced little to nothing in the way of specimens in recent months.