Rhodonite Photos
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Roger Weller, geology instructor

wellerr@cochise.edu     copyright 2008-R.Weller 

 
tumble polished rhodonite
Australia
Rhodonite is manganese silicate.  Its color is usually pink but it can range to dark
pink and even to brown.  Rhodonite is distinguished from another pink manganese
mineral, rhodochrosite, by its greater hardness (5.5 to 6) and by the presence of
black streaks of manganese oxide.
 

rhodonite
Photo is copyright free for non-commercial educational uses.
Just credit photo to R.Weller/Cochise College.