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Titanite

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Description
Locality: 
Tyrol, Austria
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
12.3 × 5.9 × 3.1 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.70cm
Weight: 
264.00gr
Description

Good size specimen with numerous sharp wedge-shaped titanite crystals included in a white-greenish fibrous matrix, rich in prismatic amphibole(?) crystals. They have a yellow colour, and well exposed, and are richly associated to translucent colourless albites.

Acquired in 1971 to Stenelux by Wilfred Moorer (1945-2015), #1602.

Combine specimens to reduce shipping costs!.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Titanite

Formula: 
CaTi(SiO4)O
Strunz: 
9.AG.15
Hardness: 
5.0 - 5.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Titanite occurrence, Hauzenberg, Lower Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany

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