Description
Historic specimen of rhodonite, a pink mineral associated with automorphic franklinite crystals in a white calcite gangue.
The handwritten label supplied indicates Franklin (typical franklinite locality), Sussex County in New Jersey, USA. The original box is also supplied.
Specimen from the De Chalendar collection, a family of industrialists who built up a mineralogical collection focusing on iron, manganese and other ores in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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