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Rutile & Smoky Quartz

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Rutile & Smoky Quartz

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Description
Locality: 
Novo Horizonte, Bahia, Brazil
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.6 × 4 × 3.5 cm
Largest Crystal: 
3.20cm
Weight: 
106.00gr
Description

Novo Horizonte is World's most famous locality of golden rutile stars. The most wanted are the specimens where rutile stars are found frozen in clear quartz crystals, like in the present specimen. The specimen is composed of quartz host rock terminated with few clear smoky quartz crystals fully intersected with golden rutile needles. Rutile orientations are defined by oriented growth on hematite, that can be seen in quartz host rock. The clarity of quartz gives the specimen an additional appeal. It stands well in several different orientations.

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

Smoky Quartz

Variety Of: 

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Hardness: 
7.0
Formula: 
SiO2
Hardness: 
0.0

Seller Information

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