Rhodochrosite, 6635


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Description

Sample of massive dark pink rhodochrosite with earthy black manganese oxide. Specimen was historically identified as rhodonite, but effervesces weakly in HCl.


Subject

  • Geology
  • Mineralogy


Details

Date
1804
Creator
Shepard, Charles Upham, 1804-1886
Publisher
University of South Carolina. McKissick Museum.
Coverage
Cummington, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States
Relations
Historic Southern Naturalists