Poudrette Quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Québec, Canada - Typical specimen of rhombohedral pink rhodochrosite crystals, associated with acicular green aegirine, highly fluorescent albite and elpidite crystals. The rhodocrosite are up to 0.4- 0.5 cm in size. Overall size is 9 × 5.5 × 5 cm. Weight is 180 gr. Ex Francois Lortie specimen (original label)

UCHUCHACUA MINE, LIMA DEPT., PERU - Bright pink rhodocrosite crystals show up on this specimen. The crystals size is up to 1.1 cm. Overall size is 6x3.5x3 cm.

N'Chwaning Mine, Northern Cape Province, South Africa  - Nice coverage of crystalline rhodocrosite from this well known locality ! The crystals show a nice light pink color and are up to 0.4 cm Nice color and showy ! Overall size is 4x2x1.5 cm

Sweet Home mine, near Alma, Park County, Colorado - For those who don't know, Richard Kosnar mined the Sweet Home for a few years during the late 1970's and managed to collect some excellent Rhodo specimens. This piece is from one of the last pockets that Rich and his mine foreman Dave Bergman (Brian Kosnar's maternal grandfather) opened before they were done at the mine. These three specimens feature a lovely pink-red color rhombohedra of Rhodochrosite; two of which have a bit of attached matrix. The crystals are sharp and well-formed with great color and translucency for the size I don't have to tell you that these pieces are selling for top dollar across the board. A worthwhile set of specimens of Rhodochrosite from this most classic of localities. Overall sizes 1.5 x 1.4 x 1.3 cm to 0.9 x 0.7 x 0.3 cm

Uchuchaccua Mine, Oyon Prov., Peru - This specimen hosts a scalenohedral, translucent Rhodochrosite crystals to 1cm from this famous and now closed silver mine. The crystal has a great color and a very nice display ! Overall size is 2.2 x 1.5 x 1.2 cm

Wessels Mine, North Cape Province, South Africa - This is a beautiful Rhodochrosite specimen from Wessels Mine. This very fine little specimen has a nice pink color. The specimen was trimmed with a trim saw at the bottom. It shows various rhodochroste spheroids and the main one is 0.7 cm in diameter. Real fine specimen from South Africa ! Overall size is 4.5 × 3.5 × 2.8 cm

Uchucchacua Mine, Oyon Province, Lima Department, Peru - A super rhodoscrosite specimen ! This rock hosts a biterminated rhodocrosite crystal of 1.6x1 cm in size ! Great color ! The crystal is gemmy ! Overal size is 2.7x2x2 cm

Uchuchaccua Mine, Oyon, Peru - 3 cm wide exposed portion of a vug with translucent pink Rhodochrosite crystals. Good undamaged crystals to 1 cm in size ! nice termination on the main crystals,  contacts on the smaller crystals. Nice for the locality. Overall size is 6x3.3x2 cm.

Uchuchaccua Mine, Oyon, Peru - Shimmering translucent red Rhodochrosite crystals on matrix. There are a dozen crystals to 0.5-0.6 cm in size! great color ! These are great Rhodo specimens that are no longer common and currently still a great value. Overall size is 5 x 5 x 4.5 cm. Weight is 150 gr

Sweet Home mine, near Alma, Park County, Colorado, USA - The Sweet Home mine is world famous for its Rhodochrosite specimens. For those who don't know, Richard Kosnar and his father-in-law Dave Bergman mined the Sweet Home for a few years during the late 1970's and managed to collect some excellent specimens. This piece features a predominant, sharp, lustrous, gemmy, rich pinkish-red rhombohedron of Rhodochrosite measuring 1.1 cm across that is perched aesthetically on contrasting black Sphalerite matrxi with minor Pyrite. This is an unusual Rhodo from the Sweet Home as they are not often seen on Sphalerite like this. It would make a great addition to any Colorado suite, a Rhodo collection or a suite of thumbnail. This piece is from one of the early pockets that Rich and Dave opened when they started mining in 1977. Overall size is 2x1.5x1.5 cm. Ex Rob Lavinsky coll.