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Hematite & Rutile

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Hematite & Rutile

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Description
Locality: 
Cavradi Gorge, Curnera Valley, Tujetsch, Surselva Region, Grisons, Switzerland
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4 × 2 × 3.1 cm
Description

A classic Swiss hematite specimen, with lustrous hexagonal platey crystals of hematite with small reddish brown prismatic rutile crystals growing on albite. The big crystals shows best quality some smaller one are contact.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Hematite

Formula: 
Fe2O3
Strunz: 
4.CB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
5.0 - 6.0

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