PINK SLICE

There had been scarcely any mineral replacement, and despite an age of perhaps forty million years the internal organs were wholly intact. *

Rhodochrosite

Dear PINK’s

Polished Rhodochrosite Stalactite slice – Capillitas Mine, Andalgala Dept, Catamarca, Argentina [via Bijoux et Mineraux]

PINK NOT DEAD!

Rhodochrosite

* H. P. Lovecraft At the Mountains of Madness, 1936

check also:

PINK KRISTALS

PINK SKULLS

PS: Manganese carbonate is extremely destructive to the amalgamation process used in the concentration of silver ores, and so until quality mineral specimens became highly sought after by collectors, they were often discarded on the mine dump.