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Quartz & Rutile

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Quartz & Rutile

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Description
Locality: 
Mörchnerkar, Finkenberg, Schwaz District, Tyrol, Austria
Class: 
Combination
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4.4 × 4.1 × 3.1 cm
Description

A group of glossy, translucent rock crystals with significant inclusions of reddish needles of rutile. Very rare from entire Alps in general and even more exceptional from this locality!

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
7.0
Streak: 
White

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