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Rutile In Smoky Quartz

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Rutile In Smoky Quartz

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Description
Locality: 
Kara Oba, Karaganda Oblast, Kazakhstan
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4.2 × 3 × 3.1 cm
Largest Crystal: 
4.30cm
Description

Very nice specimen of rutilated quartz.

Here the  smoky quartz with a strong golden yellow hue, almost citrine-like. Some rutile needles cross openly from one quartz crystal to another.

Only minor, almost invisible dings.

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

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