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Quartz With Brookite & Rutile Inclusions

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Quartz With Brookite & Rutile Inclusions

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Description
Locality: 
Thurdook, Zard Mountain, Ras Koh, Kharan, Baluchistan, Pakistan
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3 × 4 × 3.5 cm
Description

 Well terminated quartz crystals included by brookite & rutile over albite matrix.

 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Quartz

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

Brookite

Formula: 
TiO2
Strunz: 
4.DD.10
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.0
Type Locality: 
Twll Maen Grisial, Fron Olau, Prenteg, Gwynedd (Caernarvonshire), Wales, UK

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

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