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Rutile Var Sagenite

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Rutile Var Sagenite

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Description
Locality: 
Alchuri, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
11 × 8 × 3 cm
Description

A wonderful specimen, extremely rich in blood red sagenite crystals on siderite matrix with lustrous black schorl turmaline crystals.

Very beautiful specimen collected in 2004

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

Sagenite

Variety Of: 

Rutile

Formula: 
TiO2
Strunz: 
4.DB.05
Hardness: 
6.0 - 6.5
Synonym Of: 

Sagenite (of Kunz)

Hardness: 
0.0

Sagenite (of Saussure)

Hardness: 
0.0