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MB68W9: Rhodochrosite crystals with very well defined faces and edges and intense pink color, with transparent colorless crystals of Natrolite and on a not determined amphibole matrix, with Aegirine. Different than usual. This specimen was photographed and published as a novelty at the 2012 Munich Show in the magazine ‘Le Règne Minéral’ number 108, page 39
Poudrette Quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec Canada
Specimen size: 5 × 4.3 × 4.5 cm = 1.97” × 1.69” × 1.77”
Main crystal size: 0.9 × 0.8 cm = 0.35” × 0.31”
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