Rhodochrosite with Purple Apatite Kutnohorite The matrix is a mix

The matrix is a mix of Sphalerite

which is rare in my experience with this material

and most of them are rarely well crystallized

orange-pink

but you can barely see it with the naked eye

Rhodochrosite with Purple Apatite Kutnohorite The matrix is a mixThe famous Wutong Mine in China is the source of some of the finest Rhodochrosite crystals ever found. Here we have a great association specimen from this now famous locality featuring excellent quality, very sharp, compressed rhombohedra of pinkish red Rhodochrosite which are associated with beautifully complementing purple tabular crystals of Fluorapatite plus minor Quartz on sulfide bearing matrix. You just don't see many Rhodochrosites with