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[axllaird]

Pink stone with crystal pockets, clear, white(calcite?)and some other colourations. Calcite? seems slightly softer than the pink stone as is worn away a little. I'm hoping for rhodonite or rhodochrosite...any ideas. Found on the east coast of scotland around Tayside.
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[southerly]

Nice rock, most likely quartzite. Rhodonite is typically associated with black manganese oxides. Plenty of metamorphic rocks around Tayside so both are possible and both are tough enough to withstand beach tumbling. Rhodochrosite is much softer and less likely to survive beach tumbling and less likely a product of metamorphism.

[axllaird]

Cheers, southerly that shines a light. An interesting area geologically, are you familiar with it, as i've only recently started walking there?

[lithicbeads]

If I am truely seeing yellow in the image it would be rhodonite altering to spessaretiene garnet (massive ) which is a common alteration in my neck of the woods.

[axllaird]

Hi lithicbeads sorry for the bad pics, they were taken indoors. I have taken some new ones outside for better light. Hope all is revealed and i can name my rock.

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[lithicbeads]

Rhodonite with quartz and I suspect quite a bit of quartz .

[axllaird]

Thank you, rock now named and on display