Rhodochrosite on Quartz

The drop is live. Every piece is right here. When they're gone, they're gone.

Rhodochrosite is the pink one everybody asks about. These pieces came out of Wutong in Guangxi, China, with rose-pink crystals sitting on frosty white quartz, some even with fluorite. That contrast is the whole show.

It's a manganese carbonate, and manganese is what gives it that color. The name was coined in 1813 from the Greek for rose-colored, which is about as accurate as mineral names get.

Each one is one of one and comes on a display stand with its locality label.