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Rutile Var Sagenite & Chlorite On Quartz

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Rutile Var Sagenite & Chlorite On Quartz

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Description
Locality: 
Plattenkogel North Slope, Bad Gastein, St Johann im Pongau District, Salzburg, Austria
Class: 
Combination
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
9.2 × 5.5 × 5.4 cm
Description

Deep cherry red, glossy, cross-hatched sagenite crystals with green chlorite crystals on a rough quartz fragment.

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

Chlorite

Synonym Of: 

Chlorite Group

Group Parent: 
Chlorite
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
2 - 2.5
Colour: 
Green, Grey, Brown
Streak: 
colourless

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
7.0
Streak: 
White

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