rhodonite

Manganese and rhodonite were also mined in significant amounts in the Weabonga area.

It is often confused with the manganese silicate, rhodonite, but is distinctly softer.

It is the high-pressure, low-temperature dimorph of rhodonite.

In these parts, sapphires, zircon, jasper, prase, rhodonite, crystals and even gold may be found.

Nambulite is formed from the reaction between a hydrothermal solution and rhodonite, and commonly creates veins in the host rock.

He appreciated native materials like Siberian nephrite, rhodonite, aventurine, agate, quartz and chalcedony.

Botnedalen is known for the occurrence of various minerals, including hausmannite, jacobsite, braunite, bustamite and rhodonite.

The inosilicate (chain silicate) structure of rhodonite has a repeat unit of five silica tetrahedra.

There is beautiful amethyst quartz from Paterson; a lovely reddish crystal called rhodonite from Franklin.

The area is famous for semi-precious stones, such as emerald, amethyst, aquamarine, jasper, rhodonite, malachite and diamond.

Cahnite is associated with these other minerals: willemite, rhodonite, pyrochroite, hedyphane, datolite, and baryte.

Associated minerals include spessartine, tephroite, alleghanyite, hausmannite, pyrophanite, alabandite, rhodonite and rhodochrosite.

Columns are faced with stainless steel and pink rhodonite, floors and walls are finished in four different shades of granite and marble.

Among their collection of so-called PrimaTek colors are paints derived from turquoise, lapis lazuli, rhodonite, kyanite and serpentine.

It occurs with acanthite, calcite, chalcopyrite, galena, pyrite, quartz, rhodochrosite, rhodonite, sphalerite and native tellurium.

Bustamite could be confused with light-colored rhodonite or pyroxmangite, but both these minerals are biaxial (+) whereas bustamite is biaxial (-).

Caryopilite has been found in association with brandtite, calcite, gonyerite, jacobsite, lead, manganoan calcite, rhodonite, sarkinite, tirodite.

Birnessite is found as an oxidation product of several other minerals, including rhodonite, rhodochrosite, and as a weathering product of franklinite-wilminite ore.

It occurs in association with: zincite, willemite, franklinite, rhodonite, jacobsite, diopside, gageite, bustamite, manganocalcite, glaucochroite, calcite, banalsite and alleghanyite.

At the type locality in New Jersey it occurs associated with actinolite, calcite, willemite, tirodite, rhodonite, apatite, lennilenapeite, stilpnomelane, microcline and talc.

Bustamite is moderately common there and occurs in a variety of assemblages, associated with rhodonite and tephroite, calcite and tephroite or glaucochroite and tephroite.

The name is derived from the Greek for "rose-like", in common with many pink mineral types (e.g. rhodochrosite, rhodonite), but rhodolite itself is not officially recognised as a mineralogical term.

Apart from precious stones, the luxurious materials tend to be lapis, nephrite, malachite, agate, citrine, quartzite, bowenite, rhodonite and other minerals mined in Siberia, the Caucasus and the Urals.

The material from Puebla, however, was later found to be a mixture of johannsenite and rhodonite, so the type locality is now the Franklin Mine, Franklin, Sussex County, New Jersey, USA.