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Anatase With Brookite

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Anatase With Brookite

Ex E. Lehrrieder, Fürth, Germany
Classic Locality

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Description
Locality: 
Dodo Mine, Saranpaul, Khanty-Mansi, Tyumen Oblast, Russian Federation
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7 × 7 × 7.5 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.30cm
Weight: 
535.00gr
Description

Sharp, black anatase crystals up to 3 mm, with classic dipyramidal shape are scattered on a landscape-like, layered schist matrix from an alpine-type cleft. Accompanied by a brownish brookite crystal of appr. 4 mm (see pic 3).

The cleft surface is more or less vertical to the cleavage, as usual for alpine-type clefts. This is a fine piece from the Dodo Mine which was famous especially for gwindel quartz. These came out in the early to mid 1990s, with none since.
The base is sawn.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Anatase

Formula: 
TiO2
Strunz: 
4.DD.05
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.0
Type Locality: 
St Christophe-en-Oisans, Bourg d'Oisans, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France...

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

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