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Rutile With Apatite

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Rutile With Apatite

Ex Mineralien-Niederlage Freiberg, Germany
With Antique Label

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Description
Locality: 
Kragerø, Vestfold og Telemark, Norway
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
3.5 × 6 × 2.5 cm
Weight: 
74.00gr
Description

Massive rutile with silvery metallic luster frozen in a matrix consisting of dark green hornblende and pinkish apatite (but rather feldspar in my opinion). A fine historic sample from Kragerø, Telemark, Norway.

Comes with a very beautiful antique label of the K.S. (Königlich-Sächsische) Bergacademische Mineralien-Niederlage zu Freiberg, (Royal saxon school of mines mineral repository, Freiberg), handwriting of Rudolph Wappler, Director in 1851-1888.

 

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

Apatite

Synonym Of: 

Chlorapatite

Formula: 
Ca5(PO4)3Cl
Strunz: 
8.BN.05
Hardness: 
5.0

Fluorapatite

Formula: 
Ca2Ca3(PO4)3F
Strunz: 
8.BN.05
Hardness: 
5.0

Hydroxylapatite

Formula: 
Ca5(PO4)3(OH)
Strunz: 
8.BN.05
Hardness: 
5.0
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
5

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