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Rutile

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Rutile

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Description
Locality: 
Kinyanfumbe, Eastern Province, Zambia
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7 × 4.8 × 2.5 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.00cm
Description

A showy display specimen with a rich coverage of lustrous striated deep red twinned rutile crystals up to 1 cm on a light brown limonite matrix.

From a limited find in 2007.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Rutile

Formula: 
TiO2
Strunz: 
4.DB.05
Crystal System: 
Tetragonal - Ditetragonal Dipyramidal
Hardness: 
6.0 - 6.5
Type Locality: 
Rutile locality, Horcajuelo de la Sierra, Madrid, Spain
Cartils Minerals

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