This a beautiful little fiery, gem quality rhodonite. The piece is very clean to the eye and very gemmy with an intense strawberry red colour. This material was collected as a byproduct of deep mining for manganese making its environmental impact minimal. It is also worth noting that a large part of the rarity of material of gem quality rhodonite such as this is only possible because of this industrial mining for with the miners already being at such great depths looking for manganese (up to 1.5-2km), it would not be economical to get down that far just to mine the tiny amounts of rhodonite!

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