A hundred years ago the rhodochrosite from this mine was the best in the world and already rare and treasured on the market. They are still classics, today, though almost unobtainable. Collectors now know that these old time specimens are very hard to find in the mineral market place. This is a very large specimen to have survived. Vugs in the ore has allowed the formation of translucent, pink, rhodochrosite scalenohedrons, many of them in rosettes. The largest of the rosettes is nearly 1.00 cm across and some crystals, very sharp, reach 6mm.