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Identity HelpRhodonite or Rhodochrosite?
22nd Oct 2018 01:30 UTCRobert Darabos
Has silver-ish inclusions in most pieces.
Question 1.) does this seem like Rhodonite? Or Rhodochrosite?
Question 2.) any ideas on a mine it would have come from? I guessed the Broken Hill or Woods Mine localities.
Question 3.) the silvery mineral? Galena?
22nd Oct 2018 02:58 UTCDoug Schonewald
22nd Oct 2018 03:07 UTCPavel Kartashov Manager
22nd Oct 2018 04:17 UTCDoug Daniels
As far as a mine, kinda like saying you have a rhodonite/rhodochrosite from the United States. Lotsa locations; maybe not as many in Australia, but can't say for sure. Doesn't look like anything I've seen from Broken Hill (all 20 or so of them); I'm not familiar with the other location mentioned.
As far as the silvery mineral - doesn't show the cleavage of galena, unless it's fine-grained masses. In that case, well....
22nd Oct 2018 06:07 UTCKevin Conroy Manager
22nd Oct 2018 06:18 UTCGreg Dainty
22nd Oct 2018 07:12 UTCKeith Compton 🌟 Manager
Doesn't look like Rhodonite to me at all and not like any I've seen from Oz.
If it's rhodochrosite - possible - then for Australia I would be looking at the Hercules Mine in Tasmania
Cheers
22nd Oct 2018 10:57 UTCErik Vercammen Expert
22nd Oct 2018 17:11 UTCRobert Darabos
A scratch test reveals a barely white color, almost colorless. Which is both Rhodonite and Rhodochrosite, i think, so that doesn't help much.
22nd Oct 2018 19:16 UTCA. M.
23rd Oct 2018 00:45 UTCDave Owen
23rd Oct 2018 02:15 UTCKevin Conroy Manager
I still think this is pyroxmangite from Sunnyside.
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