Rhodochrosite, Quartz, Fluorite

Locality: Sweet Home Mine (Home Sweet Home Mine), Mount Bross, Alma District, Park Co., Colorado, USA

A super-colorful plate of Sweet Home mine rhodos, featuring a dozen good crystals ranging to 2.2 cm across. The color is CHERRY and the lustre is very good on these crystals. The clarity of the crystals from this pocket is rated highly , and the crystals are transparent to translucent but edging more on the side of the former. 10 x 8 x 2 cm

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Photo added: 1st Nov 2004

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