Chemical Formula: MnCO3

Chemical Name: Manganese Carbonate

Mineral Class: Carbonate

Mineral Notes: Rhodochrosite is a very attractive mineral with a distinguishing pink or red colour. Indeed the name means rose-colored. The species frequently occurs as rhombohedral, and more rarely scalahedral, crystals. In a massive form its pink and white bands are extremely beautiful and are often used in jewellery.

Description: Very attractive pale-pink Rhodochrosite lining a small pocket of gray slate matrix. The mineral has an unusual botryoidal form and is intensely lustrous.

Location: Merehead Quarry, Cranmore, Somerset, England.