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Rutile

Ex Freiberg Mining Academy Mineral Dealership
With Antique Label

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Description
Locality: 
Magnet Cove, Hot Spring County, Arkansas, United States of America
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
2.5 × 3.5 × 2 cm
Largest Crystal: 
2.00cm
Weight: 
30.00gr
Description

A cluster of rutile crystals with indistinctly formed crystal faces, but showing multiple (cyclic) twinning (see pics 2 & 3).

Comes with stamp-like label which is from the famous Mineralien-Niederlage of the Freiberg mining college, Saxony, Germany, dated 1920-1950.

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

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