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 Minerals Beginning with "R"

	JC12755.   Rhodonite.  Conselheiro Lafaiete, Minas Gerais, Brazil.  6 x 5 x 1.5 cm 92g  $35.00  Bright hot pink/magenta/sort of reddish.  Best described as a mass of cleavages, although there are no discrete crystals.  Bright luster on the cleavage faces.   Pretty.
	JC12755.   Slightly different angle.
	JC12488.  Rhodonite.  Brazil.   2.5 x 6.2 x 8 cm 480g Semi polished rectangle/square   $30.00
	JC12488.  Back side.
	BR582.  Roselite, Cobaltlotharmeyerite.  Aghbar mine, Souss-Massa-Draa region, Morocco. 7 x 4.5 x 3 cm 106g  $170.00  Two vugs filled with micro-crystals.  Ex: Ossola Mineraux. Ex: Kay Robertson coll. Ex: Mineralogical Research.
	BR582.  Close up of the vug.
	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.
	JC12502.   Ruby, fuchsite.  Mysore District, Karnataka, India.   3.5 x 4.3 cm 33g   $20.00
	JC11711.  Ruby.  Mysore District, Karnataka, India.  3.5 x 3.5 cm 28g.   $20.00.   Ruby slice about 1 cm thick, with green chlorite? on the back.