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Rutile On Clinochlore

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Rutile On Clinochlore

With Antique Label

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Description
Locality: 
Kruml Glacier, Rauris, Zell am See District, Salzburg, Austria
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.8 × 5 × 3.3 cm
Description

This is truely a fantastic and very old rutile specimen from Austria.

Several well terminated lustrous metallic redbrown rutile crystals nicely set on grey-green clinochlore crystals.

Ex Dr. Hartel collection

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

Clinochlore

Formula: 
(Mg,Fe2+)5Al(AlSi3O10)(OH)8
Strunz: 
9.EC.55
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
2.0 - 2.5
Type Locality: 
Brinton's Quarry, West Chester, Westtown Township, Chester Co., Pennsylvania, USA...