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Rock Crystal & Rutile

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Rock Crystal & Rutile

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Description
Locality: 
Hardangervidda, Vestland, Norway
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.8 × 3.5 × 1.5 cm
Description

The locality is well known for Anatase - Rock crystals or smokies are very rare. We just had the luck to buy this material from a field-collector, who was very active at the locality. The particular specimen is a group of water-clear, sharp, lustrous smokies with light brown color and hairy inclusions of Rutile. On same high quality all around.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Rock Crystal

Variety Of: 

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Hardness: 
7.0
Formula: 
Hardness: 
0.0

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