Provenite

Kerch Peninsula

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45.2500° N, 36.0000° E · Region only

Rhodochrosite from Crimea, Ukraine, with photos of specimens from this locality.

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Minerals found here

Rhodochrosite

On the same specimen

Same specimen Calcite with Rhodochrosite

1 specimen photo(s) from this locality show rhodochrosite with calcite together. The pairing comes from the photographer's file name and label, so the relationship between the two minerals is not specified.

Rhodochrosite at Kerch Peninsula

Rhodochrosite specimen labelled as from the Kerch Peninsula, Crimea.
Rhodochrosite specimen labelled as from the Kerch Peninsula, Crimea.
Photo: Robert M. Lavinsky · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source
Vug in a fossil snail shell lined with pastel-pink rhodochrosite, Kerch Peninsula.
Vug in a fossil snail shell lined with pastel-pink rhodochrosite, Kerch Peninsula.
Photo: Robert M. Lavinsky · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source
Fossil snail shell partly replaced by pastel-pink rhodochrosite, Kerch Peninsula.
Fossil snail shell partly replaced by pastel-pink rhodochrosite, Kerch Peninsula.
Photo: Robert M. Lavinsky · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source
A fossil snail shell partly replaced by rhodochrosite from the Kerch Peninsula, Crimea.
A fossil snail shell partly replaced by rhodochrosite from the Kerch Peninsula, Crimea.
Photo: Robert M. Lavinsky · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source
A clam shell in sedimentary matrix with its interior replaced by salmon-pink rhodochrosite and a little calcite, Kerch Peninsula.
A clam shell in sedimentary matrix with its interior replaced by salmon-pink rhodochrosite and a little calcite, Kerch Peninsula.
Photo: Robert M. Lavinsky · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source
Formula
MnCO₃
Morphology
Pseudomorphs after bivalve shell remains in earthy iron oxide/hydroxide aggregate
Associated minerals
Baryte

Sources: SRC-283 SRC-271 SRC-272

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Geology of the locality

Setting
Kamysh-Burun Trough in the Kerch iron-ore basin; rhodochrosite is reported as pseudomorphs after bivalve shell remains in an earthy iron oxide/hydroxide aggregate.
Host rock
Earthy iron oxide/hydroxide aggregate (pseudomorph host)
Region
Crimea
Country
Ukraine

Photo label says only Kerch peninsula; the Mindat entry places the rhodochrosite in the Kamysh-Burun Trough. Specimens reported by the museum paper are labelled Komysh-Burun. Coordinates left empty because no opened source gave them. Coordinates: Nominal centre of the Kerch Peninsula (45 15 N, 36 00 E). The peninsula is over 90 km long, so this does not locate a rhodochrosite site. Mindat's Kerchenskoe rhodochrosite localities (Eltigen-Ortel' Trough, Quarry E Kamysh-Burun) only carry estimated coordinates (45 N, 36 E). Coordinates: Nominal centre of the Kerch Peninsula (45 15 N, 36 00 E). The peninsula is over 90 km long, so this does not locate a rhodochrosite site. Mindat's Kerchenskoe rhodochrosite localities (Eltigen-Ortel' Trough, Quarry E Kamysh-Burun) only carry estimated coordinates (45 N, 36 E). Coordinates: Nominal centre of the Kerch Peninsula (45 15 N, 36 00 E). The peninsula is over 90 km long, so this does not locate a rhodochrosite site. Mindat's Kerchenskoe rhodochrosite localities (Eltigen-Ortel' Trough, Quarry E Kamysh-Burun) only carry estimated coordinates (45 N, 36 E).

Sources: SRC-283 SRC-271 SRC-272 SRC-311

Sources

  1. SRC-283 · Website
    File:Rhodochrosite-290185.jpg - Wikimedia Commons (read via mirror)Wikimedia Commons (file page; photo by Robert M. Lavinsky) · 2010 · Wikimedia Commons
  2. SRC-271 · Database
    Kamysh-Burun Trough, Kerchenskoe deposit, Kerch Peninsula, Crimea (locality entry 559864)Mindat.org contributors · n.d. · Mindat.org
  3. SRC-272 · Article
    Scientific and historical value of the rhodochrosite collection of the Yevhen Lazarenko Mineralogical Museum (Lviv, Ukraine)Tsilmak, O.; Burban, K.; Buchynska, A.; Bornyak, U.; Dvorzhak, T. · 2026 · GEO&BIO 28, 7-16
  4. SRC-311 · Website
    Kerch Peninsula - Wikipedia

Draft data from the Provenite workbook. Check entries against the cited sources before relying on them. Photos are open-licence images from Wikimedia Commons; the author and licence are given with each photo.