SMQ10 Rhodochrosite
Santa Eulalia District, Mun. de Aquiles Serdán, Chihuahua, Mexico
6.1x 4.8x 3.6 cm
$1100
A pair of roughly hemispherical aggregates composed of many small, sparkly rhodochrosite crystals on a sulfide matrix. These Mexican rhodochrosites date to the 1960’s, and are rather hard to find today. This is a particularly aesthetic piece; although the crystals are small, their arrangement on the matrix is quite unique. More often than not, the crystals were just randomly scattered, or found lining vugs and in seams—this one however, actually has some definite spatial composition….
