All Specimens with Rhodochrosite

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3D24 - Rhodochrosite - $ 95 SOLD
Mount St. Hilaire, Rouville County, Quebec, Canada
thumbnail, 2.7 x 2 x 2 cm
ex. Marilyn Dodge

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Very attractive cluster of lustrous rust-colored modified rhombs of Rhodochrosite. Although contacted along the bottom, the unusual color, luster, and form of the rhombs makes this especially attractive.

3D56 - Barite, Gageite, & Rhodochrosite - $ 95 SOLD
N�Chwaning Mine, Kalahari Manganese Field, South Africa
miniature, 3.8 x 2.3 x 2.2 cm
ex. Marilyn Dodge

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This is an amazing combination piece. Imagine, lustrous, razor-sharp Barites to .9 cm on edge, gemmy pink 1 mm Rhodos completely coating the top of the matrix, and the incredibly rare Gageite undeerlaying and poking out here and there (brown microcrystals).

4MC15 - RHODOCHROSITE - $ 65 SOLD
CATAMARCA, ARGENTINA
thumbnail, 2.4 X .9 X .5 cm

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um...a cute stalactite!

4MC23 - Rhodochrosite - $ 175 SOLD
ALMA, PARK CO., COLORADO
thumbnail, 2 X .9 X .9 cm

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A very colorful rhomb of rhodo, from the days long before the Sweet Home was reopened!

AZMEX27 - Rhodochrosite - $ 600 SOLD
Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico
small cabinet, 6.4 x 5.8 x 2.0 cm

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The multitude of sparkling reflections from small, intergrown, rhombs which grew into spheroids, highlight this specimen of rhodo, to 1.5 cm across, on a contrasting limonite matrix. The rhodo has a wonderful rich pink color and the luster is truly breathtaking in person.

CKTSR-4 - SHIGAITE on RHODOCHROSITE - $ 15000 SOLD
N'Chwaning II Mine, Kalahari Manganese Fields, Northern Cape Province, South Africa
miniature, 3.2 x 2.5 x 1.5 cm
ex. Charlie Key

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A beautiful specimen, complete 360 degrees, hosting a translucent 2 cm shigaite perched on sparkly rhodo crystals! This is a piece of major importance in the world of rarities, and Charlie felt that for combination of size and aesthetics it was the best miniature from the find of the early 1980s that he could keep in his suite of personal Kalahari rarities of miniature size - this was in fact the pride of the collection, I'd say. it is NOT the fragile, thin, disclike crystal you expect to see form looking at the recently mined material. it is very thick, sturdy, and easily packed for shipping. Although a "toenail" size, it is important enough to take its place in a miiatures or rarities suite of stature, and is really irreplaceable.

CR01 - Rhodochrosite - $ 275
Wuzhou, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China
miniature, 3.5 x 3.0 x 1.4 cm

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A sharp cluster where the major 3.5 cm crystal is propped up by smaller crystals behind it, laced with gemmy calcite on the backside. It is a floater, complete all around!

CR03 - Rhodochrosite - $ 450 SOLD
Wuzhou, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China
miniature, 4.1 x 3.7 x 2.0 cm

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A fat, complete, floater crystal with what seems to be little plates of cleavelandite attached - possibly indicating a pegmatite origin for these specimens ?! This is a fine single crystalcomplete all around, and somewhat prettier in person because there is a gemmy area to the top-right that isn't coming out in the photo

CR05 - Rhodochrosite - $ 450
Wuzhou, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China
miniature, 3.8 x 3.3 x 2.9 cm

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This is a rare piece - few matrix specimens were recovered, it seems. This one has fat disc-shaped crystals to 2.3 cm on matrix. They have a thin white coating in some places, that may come off in acid if one wants to try, but i like the softened look of it and the pink hue the thin white coating casts in combination with the red rhodo. Its unusual! Cheaper than it might be because it has minor damage to the left edge of the front-middle crystal.

CR06 - Rhodochrosite (6.5 cm floater!) - $ 2000 SOLD
Wuzhou, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China
small cabinet, 6.5 x 4.2 x 1 cm

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This relatively HUGE crystal is a floater, complete all around! It is such an unusual form for rhodochrosite due to an extreme and elegant elongation on one axis, rather than symmetric as usual. In person it is VERY dramatic and it glows with pink-red color when even minimally backlit.

CR07 - Rhodochrosite - $ 1750
Wuzhou, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China
small cabinet, 6.4 x 3.6 x 1.5 cm

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Another HUGE floater specimen of Chinese rhodo! The form, like the above, is just exctremely elongated and unusual for a rhodo. This one is a compound cluster, a floater that is complete and terminated all around, composed of several intergrown crystals. This is a most impressive piece, in person. Again,we have a strange association with what appears to be pegmatitic cleavelandite.

CR08 - Rhodochrosite - $ 3500 SOLD
Wuzhou, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China
miniature, 6 x 5.3 x 2.7 cm

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This specimen has overall, visually, the largest surface area of any crystal in the lot, and shows dramatically when backlit even a little bit. It is complete and undamaged all around, and is a floater with no attachment points. The dominant crystal sits perpendicularly on a "nest" of smaller crystals, themselves 3-dimensional, juicy, and complete all around as well so that the whole piece is a floater. It is more dramatic in person. I suspect that this would come to be considered to be a fairly significant Chinese rhodo, down the road. Even by worldwide standards, it is incredible - are they gemmy, super lustrous , like Sweet Home? No. But, they are a different beast entirely, and the novel form and unusual crystallization really makes them stand on their own merits as great rhodos. Lastly, this piece LOOKS twinned, and we have a debate on whether this is an illusion or real twinning about its central plane. Again, an unusual beast! It is BETTER IN PERSON

D05-145 - Rhodochrosite - $ 750 SOLD
Moanda Mine, Moanda, Haut-Ogoou�, Gabon
miniature, 5.9 x 3.5 x 1.2 cm

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This is an exceptional specimen for the locality, with sharp crystals along the entire periphery, and quite attractive because it isn't on the usual gloppy matrix (this is rare!). This is an excellent specimen, and it woul dhave come out in the 1970s. Few turn up on the market today!

D05-155 - Rhodochrosite - $ 125 SOLD
Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico
thumbnail, 1.3 x 0.8 x 0.6 cm

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A very rare GEM rhodo from this locality, collected some 40-60 years ago. Rhodos from Eulalia of this quality are extremely difficult to obtain today. This is a fine, single crystal thumbnail example!

D05-41 - Rhodochrosite with Quartz - $ 5000 SOLD
Sweet Home Mine, Alma, Colorado, USA
miniature, 5.1 x 5.1 x 2 cm

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This gorgeous, well-balanced miniature features large and gemmy crystals to an inch, perched nicely on matrix. The large crystal has GLASSY lustre and is super-translucent, with a rich cherry color! It is somewhat better in person as it was photographed at a slightly odd angle to get everythign to show up better and lit well. It has no repairs. This is one of the better rhodo mini's I have seen on the market recently. They are REALLY drying up fast. I sell very few not because I do not have them, but because I tend to stash them. These are like money in the bank, going up 20% per year or MORE recently. These are the fastest-appreciating items in the mineral business

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