JPR04 Rhodochrosite
Oppu mine, Nishimeya-mura, Naka-Tsugaru-gun, Aomori, Japan
8.8x 4.3x 2.5 cm
$500
A great cabinet sized example of rhodochrosite from Japan, with a rich botryoidal coating covering most of the rock matrix.
The Oppu mine was intermittently worked for various ore between the 1600's and closure 1979, with a final smaller scale operation undertaken int he 1980's to recover lapidary rhodochrosite.
