Rhodochrosite Tumbled Stone – High grade

Pick a lovely, high grade Rhodochrosite Tumbled Stone from this group. The patterning in this crystal is lovely and it will stimulate your imagination and therefore your clairvoyance/intuition.

Note: Precious stone quality is actually a pure warm pink colour – you can see that colour showing as one of the tones in the patterning. But if there is no patterns then it is semi-precious/precious grade and major $$$.

Patterning is actually from impurities but they too add their healing charm. Click here for a video to help you decide.

This crystal will is great for stimulating love and passion while energising the soul. Therefore, use it it to open the heart and lift depression. Also use this crystal to improve self worth and to improve the physical condition. These include using it to improve the digestion, kidneys, heart and pancreas. Read more on the Healing tab.

The bottom 2 tumbles are sold. We have others to buy too – click here. And bulk buy under “clearance”.

You may want to have a rhodochrosite tumbled stone to wear by placing it into cotton or hemp basket necklace or buy one of our medium spirals here.

Healing Properties

Benefits of Rhodochrosite

• Stone of love and balance.
• Helps one deal with issues of avoidance and denial.
• Helps create new worlds of possibilities.
• Increases passion and desires in life
  • brings back playfulness so healing your inner child’ healing.
• Helps attract happy relationships e.g. one’s soul mate.
• Unblocks psychic energies so upward flow from Earth, and, down from Crown to Heart.
• Helps movement forward after period of doubt.
• Said to stimulate the circulation system and kidneys
  • e.g. normalize blood pressure & to stabilize the heartbeat.

Geological Information

Geological Information of Rhodochrosite

• It is a manganese carbonate mineral.

General Identification

• Category: Carbonate minerals - Calcites
• Formula: (repeating unit) MnCO3
• Hardness: 3½ - 4
• Specific Gravity: 3.7
• Crystal system: Trigonal
• Lustre: Vitreous, Pearly
• Crystal habit: Rhombohedral and scalenohedral crystals; also commonly bladed, columnar, stalactitic, botryoidal, granular or massive
• Colour: Pink, rose, rose-red, red, cherry-red, yellow, yellowish gray, gray, cinnamon-brown, white, may be banded; colourless to pale rose in transmitted light.

Special Notes

• In its (rare) pure form, it is typically a rose-red color and is considered semi precious if not precious stone.
• Impure specimens can be shades of pink to pale brown.
• It can be muddled with Rhodonite as both have manganese and thus a similar look especially in gem crystal form.
• As a biomineral, it may be formed by some fungi, e.g., Lichenothelia, during oxidation (e.g., Burford et al., 2003).
• Rhodochrosite occurs as a hydrothermal vein mineral with other manganese minerals in the silver mines of Romania where it was first found.
• Banded rhodochrosite is mined in Capillitas, Argentina.