13 x 9 x 4.5 cm

A superb, collector quality rhodochrosite specimen from the world famous Sweet Home Mine. This specimen was discovered in September of 1996 in crystal-lined pocket named “Hedgehog”.  The pocket was so named because the pocket walls were completely covered with small, needle-like quartz crystals resembling the quills or spines of this small mammal.  This specimen features numerous reddish-pink, lustrous rhombohedral crystals of rhodochrosite reaching 1.4 cm on edge which have grown on a matrix coated with clear to milky quartz crystals measuring up to 2 cm in length.   A very fine aesthetic mineral specimen!