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Rhodochrosite on sphalerite

Raines, Ed
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Mines Museum of Earth Science
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2018
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rhodochrosite
 Mines and mineral resources -- Colorado -- Eagle County
 Sphalerite -- Colorado -- Eagle County
 Crystals
 Gilman Mining District (Colo.)
 Eagle Mine (Colo.)
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Minerals of Gilman, Colorado
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This mineral specimen is from the Eagle mine in the Gilman mining district, Eagle County, Colorado, and shows intergrowths of pink, flattened (discoidal), rhombohedral crystals of rhodochrosite on black sphalerite crystals.
For more information about the Minerals of Gilman, Colorado and the collection, see: http://libguides.mines.edu/GeologyMuseum/digitalcollectionsGilman.
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