Best Manganese

Calcium manganese silicate mineral forming pale pink to brownish crystals; named after Mexican general and statesman Anastasio Bustamante, with notable occurrences at Franklin, New Jersey.

Manganese iron phosphate mineral with a distinctive purple to dark red color, found in oxidized pegmatites in Namibia, Australia, and Portugal.

A manganese-dominant borosilicate of the axinite group, typically honey-yellow to orange-brown, found in metamorphic and metasomatic environments and collected as a facetable rarity.

Thulite is a striking pink, manganese-rich variety of the mineral zoisite, heavily sourced from Norway where it was first discovered in the Telemark region.

A rare manganese aluminum spinel (MnAl₂O₄) occurring in metamorphic rocks, noted for its opaque black appearance and metallic luster; facetable specimens are uncommon.

Rhodonite is a pink manganese inosilicate mineral often found with black manganese oxide veins, historically carved into ornamental urns and columns by the Russian aristocracy.