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Rutile

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Description
Locality: 
Formazza Valley, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
3.5 × 4.6 × 2.2 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.80cm
Description

Yellow-brown, lustrous, reticular rutile crystals up to 8 mm long on the crystal faces of a rock-crystal fragment from the Italian locality Val Formazza. A very typical rutile from not so typical locality with an interesting pedigree. The specimen comes from the very first collection of Federico Pezzotta and in case of interest for the buyer, the label can be autographed by him.

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

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Europe (under 1 kg)
$20
Europe (between 1 and 2 kg)
$20
Rest of the world (under 1 kg)
$20
rest of the world (between 1 and 2 kg)
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