Now through August 15, the Virginia Department of Social Services is helping to provide qualifying households with cooling assistance. To qualify for cooling assistance, a household must have either a child under 6-years-old, an individual with a disability, or an adult age 60 or older living in the home.
Rhodonite Gemstone Information. Rhodonite is a rose pink to dark red gemstone with black dendritic inclusions. It is a manganese silicate, and a member of the pyroxenoid group of minerals. The manganese is often partly replaced by iron, magnesium, calcium, and sometimes zinc, occasionally in large quantities.
Rhodochrosite is a gemstone that in pure form is rose-red in color. Due to impurities, rhodochrosite is usually found as pink stones, which may have bands of white. This pink gemstone gets its color from the inclusion of manganese. The pink stone itself is used mainly as manganese ore.