Rhodochrosite Geo Card  E-mail this product to a friend

The back of the card reads: Rhodochrosite is a manganese carbonate (MnCO3) found in eighteen of Colorado's counties associated with gold, silver, lead, zinc, and molybdenum ores. Rhodochrosite's common crystal habit is the rhombohedron typical of carbonate minerals. It is also found in Colorado as massive, dogtooth, disclike, radiating, granular, stalactitic, and rosette forms. Although rhodochrosite is most commonly pink and opaque, Colorado's translucent red variety is prized the world over, commonly bringing prices in the tens of thousands of dollars.