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Quartz With Ilmenite & Rutile Inclusions

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Quartz With Ilmenite & Rutile Inclusions

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Description
Locality: 
Zagi Mountain, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.2 × 3.9 × 1.6 cm
Description

A very unusual quartz example  , well terminated  , clear quartz crystal with well terminated ilmenite inclusion  from famed Zagi mountain ,

There is no damage except minor etching at back side.

The quartz crystal could further be cleaned.

Colleceted this week.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Quartz

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

Ilmenite

Formula: 
Fe2+TiO3
Strunz: 
4.CB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal - Rhombohedral
Hardness: 
5.0 - 6.0
Type Locality: 
Ilmen Natural Reserve, Ilmen Mts, Chelyabinsk Oblast', Southern Urals, Urals Region, Russia...

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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