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🌟 Online Specialist Crystal Shop since 2017:
www.thecitrinecircle.com
🌟 Crystal, Coffee & Gift Shop in Lancashire, open Wed - Sat
🌟 Sales Group: www.facebook.com/groups/theccshowroom
🌟 Award Winning free crystal app: A Guide To Crystals - The CC

15/10/2026

No post will be going out today as Emma & Stu are at a suppliers - shop & cafe open as usual
10 - 4 ✨

🌟 All About Rhodochrosite 🌟 Rhodochrosite is a beautiful pink to red coloured manganese carbonate mineral that holds the...
14/10/2026

🌟 All About Rhodochrosite 🌟

Rhodochrosite is a beautiful pink to red coloured manganese carbonate mineral that holds the title of the National Gemstone of Argentina and is also the state gemstone of Colorado. It is found in hydrothermal ore veins in association with other minerals such as Gold, Silver, Sphalerite, Pyrite and Quartz, and in the past has been used as an indicator for these precious metals.

The colouration of Rhodochrosite is caused by manganese, and when some manganese is replaced by iron, magnesium or calcium, this dulls the colour and tinges it more brown, white or grey. This colour is also where the name originally came from - with ‘rhodo’ meaning rose, and ‘chros’ meaning colour from Greek, so literally translating to ‘rose coloured’.

Rhodochrosite is a crystal that has history dating back to the 13th century in Argentina with the Incas, having been found as funeral jewellery in tombs, and with Incan myths telling that it was the solidified blood of their kings and queens.

As well as Argentina, Rhodochrosite has been found all over the world in modern times, including Peru, Bulgaria, China, Mexico and the world class crystals found in the USA and South Africa. Rhodochrosite from Argentina often has a distinctive banded pattern, leading to the tongue in cheek nickname of “forbidden bacon”. Argentina is also home to fantastic stalactite formations of Rhodochrosite, that reveal beautiful patterns when sliced and polished.

I can’t write an article on Rhodochrosite without mentioning the famous Sweet Home Mine in Colorado, origin of the world’s largest Rhodochrosite single crystal, the Alma King, which measures in at an incredible 15cm and was sold for $800,000 and now resides in the Denver Museum of Natural History. The Sweet Home Mine was not originally intended as a Rhodochrosite mine however - back in 1873 when the mine originally opened, it was a silver mine, and the Rhodochrosite was largely ignored. The silver had run out by 1967, and it closed, and was reopened in 1991 not for it’s silver - but this time for the Rhodochrosite crystals, which had found popularity with collectors across the world.

Rhodochrosite is one of those crystals that can look very different from different localities - with the juicy deep red rhombs of Colorado, the scalenohedral cryatsls of South Africa, the bubbly formations from Bulgaria and Mexico, to the famous banded “bacon” of Argentina.

All images from Mindat, showing different formations of Rhodochrosite from around the world.

Happy Wednesday everyone! We've got some yummy treats in the shop & cafe this week, including this delicious Lemon & Blu...
14/10/2026

Happy Wednesday everyone! We've got some yummy treats in the shop & cafe this week, including this delicious Lemon & Blueberry Loaf Cake 🤤
Open Wed - Sat, 10am - 4pm for crystals, coffee & cake in Colne!

The live sale menu for tonight ✨
13/10/2026

The live sale menu for tonight ✨

12/10/2026

We've got lots of gorgeous Bulgarian minerals lined up for tomorrow evening, including Sphalerite, Galena, Quartz & Calcite!

White or Green? How gorgeous are these polished Apophyllite crystals! 😍 Apophyllite is very difficult to polish as it cl...
11/10/2026

White or Green? How gorgeous are these polished Apophyllite crystals! 😍 Apophyllite is very difficult to polish as it cleaves so easily, so the patience and care needed to do these is super impressive!

Sunday Specials tonight is all about mighty minis, don't miss them at 7pm over in the sales group!

Getting ready for Halloween here at The CC! We have some "bone-afide" new arrivals just in time for October. Check out t...
10/10/2026

Getting ready for Halloween here at The CC!

We have some "bone-afide" new arrivals just in time for October. Check out these stunning crystal skulls that just hit the shelves!
Which stone are you drawn to? Let us know below or stop in to see them all in person! 🕸️👇

09/10/2026

Tonight is all about Nuummite! This rare crystal has historically only been found in commercial quantities in Greenland, although there has been an exciting new deposit find recently in Finland!

Tonight in our weekly restock we have 3 very cool Seymchan Pallasite Meteorite slices!Seymchan Meteorite is a type of pa...
09/10/2026

Tonight in our weekly restock we have 3 very cool Seymchan Pallasite Meteorite slices!

Seymchan Meteorite is a type of pallasite meteorite, a type of stony-iron meteorite that has yellow - green Olivine crystals embedded within. Unlike other Pallasite meteorites like the more common Sericho, Seymchan is unusual as the Olivine crystals are clustered in the outer crust, whereas the centre is a much more solid metal, this makes for particularly interesting larger specimen slices where a larger cross section can be seen. Only around 10 - 20% of Seymchan specimens contain olivine crystals.

The Seymchan meteorite was first discovered in 1967 in the dry riverbed of the Hekandue River in Magadan Oblast, in the far east of Russia. The nearest town was the small settlement of Seymchan, with a current population of around 2,800 people, after which it was named. There is no current record of when it fell to earth as the fall was unseen (although this would technically be possible to date with cosmogenic radionuclide dating, which Stu has explained to me at length, but I won’t bore you with the details!), but the original parent asteroid from which the Seymchan broke off from is believed to date back 4.5 billion years to the asteroid belt between Mars & Jupiter.

When it was first discovered, the Seymchan meteorite was thought to be a “normal” iron meteorite, as no pieces with olivine in were discovered at first (due to it’s uneven Olivine distribution), it wasn’t until the turn of the 21st century that specimens containing Olivine were discovered, and it was reclassified as a pallasite.

Unlike Sericho meteorite, Seymchan is much more resistant to rusting, this is due to the unusually high content of rare metal iridium, which is the most rust / oxidation resistant metal known on Earth.

09/10/2026

Something I've enjoyed doing being back in dispatch world this week is seeing all the beautiful things that people have chosen - like this gorgeous Aurora Quartz / Anandalite that's off to it's new home in the US 😍

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Former Methodist Church, Dickson Street
Nelson
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