Rhodonite Photos
Cochise College               
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Roger Weller, geology instructor

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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                                                                                                                               pebbles1
Photo is copyright free only for non-commercial educational uses.
Just credit photo to R.Weller/Cochise College.