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Brookite

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Brookite

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Description
Locality: 
Nibbenut, Hardangervidda West, Odda, Vestland, Norway
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6 × 4.8 × 2.8 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.90cm
Description

Here we have a specimen with plenty of brookite crystals (many of them are broken) that are embedded in a mass of clay minerals. Appearenty it represents a crack filling that later was somewhat silicified.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

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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