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 Minerals Beginning with "R"

	JC11571.  Rhodonite.  San Martin mine, Chiurucu, Huallanca district, Bolognesi province, Ancash department, Peru.  2.5 x 5.5 cm tall.  71g.  $80.00    Partially complete bladed crystals.   Color is bright pink, not quite as pink as the photo would indicate.
	JC11571.   Another view.
	JC11571.   Another view.
	JC8963.  Rhodizite.  Ampasogona pegmatite, Tetezantsio-Andoabatokely pegmatite field, Andrembesoa commune, Betafo district, Vakinankaratra region, Antananarivo province, Madagascar.  4.5 x 4.5 cm  92g.  $75.00.  A 16mm crystal, one corner is dinged.            ON SALE, TAKE 50% OFF THE MARKED PRICE
	JC8963.  Another view.
	JC8966.    Rhodizite, rubellite.  Ampasogona pegmatite, Tetezantsio-Andoabatokely pegmatite field, Andrembesoa commune, Betafo district, Vakinankaratra region, Antananarivo province, Madagascar.  3 x 3.7 cm  38g.  $45.00.   A 1 cm crystal, with associated rubellite.        ON SALE, TAKE 50% OFF THE MARKED PRICE.
	JC8966.  Another view.
	JC8968.    Rhodizite.  Ampasogona pegmatite, Tetezantsio-Andoabatokely pegmatite field, Andrembesoa commune, Betafo district, Vakinankaratra region, Antananarivo province, Madagascar.  2.7 x 3.2 cm  33g.  $45.00.  A 1 cm crystal embedded in feldspar, quartz and ?       ON SALE, TAKE 50% OFF THE MARKED PRICE.
	JC8968.  Another view.
	JC8969.    Rhodizite, rubellite.  Ampasogona pegmatite, Tetezantsio-Andoabatokely pegmatite field, Andrembesoa commune, Betafo district, Vakinankaratra region, Antananarivo province, Madagascar.  2.7 x 4 cm  90g.  $45.00    A 7mm crystal        ON SALE, TAKE 50% OFF THE MARKED PRICE.
	JC8969.  Another view.
	JC8969.  Another view.
	JC8970.    Rhodizite.  Ampasogona pegmatite, Tetezantsio-Andoabatokely pegmatite field, Andrembesoa commune, Betafo district, Vakinankaratra region, Antananarivo province, Madagascar.  3.2 x 5.5 cm  69g.  $60.00.  A 13mm compound crystal group.        ON SALE, TAKE 50% OFF THE MARKED PRICE.
	JC8970.  Another view.
	JC8970.  Another view.
	JC8972.    Rhodizite, rubellite.  Ampasogona pegmatite, Tetezantsio-Andoabatokely pegmatite field, Andrembesoa commune, Betafo district, Vakinankaratra region, Antananarivo province, Madagascar.  2.5 x 2.5 cm 19g.  $40.00.   Thumbnail.  A 12mm crystal with associated rubellite.       ON SALE, TAKE 50% OFF THE MARKED PRICE.   RESERVED
	JC11581.   Rhodochrosite, pyrite, quartz.  Casapalca mines area, Casapalca, Chicla district, Huarochiri province, Lima department, Peru.  4 x 6 x 9 cm  473g.  $125.00.   Pink, opaque crystals coating pyrite and quartz on the front, with more individualized crystals on the back.  SOLD
	JC11583.  Rhodochrosite, pyrite, quartz.  Casapalca mines area, Casapalca, Chicla district, Huarochiri province, Lima department, Peru.  6 x 10 x 10 cm  691g.   $65.00.    Small pink crystals coating matrix.
	JC11583.   Closer view.
	JC10640.  Rhodochrosite.  Uchucchacua mine, Oyon province, Lima dept., Peru.   4.5 x 5.5 cm  90g.  $155.00.   Light pink modified rhomb crystals coating black matrix.  Ex. Alvin Pranschke collection.
	JC10640.   Closer view.
	JC8608.  Rhodochrosite.  N'Chwaning II mine, N'Chwaning mines, Kuruman, Kalahari manganese field, Northern Cape province, South Africa. 7 x 11.5 cm  388g.  $250.00.   Pink, somewhat botryoidal shaped with tiny sparkly crystals making up the botryoids.  From recent finds.   The true color is a darker pink than the photo shows.
	JC8608.  View looking down at steep angle showing the botryoids along the top of the piece.
	JC8608.  Close up view.
	JC8608.  Back side.
	JC10963.  Rosasite, hemimorphite, hydrozincite, smithsonite.     Zinc Hill mine, Zinc Hill subdistrict, Darwin district, Inyo county, California.  8 x 10 cm   622g.  $50.00    Near the same place as the malachite/rosasite/hemimorphite area was a zone of smithsonite/rosasite/hemimorphite/willemite.    On this piece, a somewhat oxidized smithsonite bearing matrix has hydrozincite with hemimorphite, some coated black.  Rosasite covers about 1/4 of the area with little specs of later hydrozincite? sitting on it and the hemimorphite.   Implanted on this is hemimorphite, some coated with the unknown black mineral, and lastly hydrozincite.     I wrote the Zinc Hill mine up in the Mineralogical Record.  I kept a dozen or so pieces of the best quality from this find, and decided to de-access some of them here.  These were collected in 1970.     As a side note, at that time you could drive up to Darwin Falls, a year round waterfall in a canyon not too far from the mine.  I would get up at 4 a.m., dig minerals until noon (this was in July), then retire to the falls and stand under the water off and on until dark...more fun.    See  Min. Rec. Vol. 16, P.110-113 1975
	JC10963.  A closer view
	JC10963.  Close up view of the hemimorphite/ rosasite area.  The white specks are probably hydrozincite
	JC10963.  Close up of the hemimorphite.
	JC10490. Elbaite/Rubellite.   Malkhan Pegmatite Field, Krasnyi Chikoy, Chitinskaya Oblast, Transbaikal, Eastern Siberia, Russia.  5 cm tall crystal.  39g.   $290.00    Pinkish red termination, with the sides partially coated with microscopic quartz crystals which add sparkle to the sides.     Discovered in 1980 by Russian geologists, this area has been a prolific source of beautiful (and expensive) tourmaline specimens.
	JC10490.  Back side.