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Pink manganese minerals

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Pink manganese minerals

Rhodonite, a pink manganese mineral, is found as lens-shaped deposits within schist in Otago and the Southern Alps. It usually occurs naturally with a rind of black, oxidised material called pyrolusite.

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Jocelyn Thornton, Gemstones – Other gemstones, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/5127/pink-manganese-minerals (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Jocelyn Thornton, i tāngia i te 2 March 2009.