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Rutile Quartz & Pericline

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Rutile Quartz & Pericline

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Description
Locality: 
Schwarzkopf, Rauris, Salzburg, Austria
Class: 
Single Crystal
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.9 × 2.1 × 1.5 cm
Description

Rutilated quarz is something special for any alpine collector. This one is a good example how beautiful such things can be. A bunch of golden to black thin rutile are overgrown by clear quarz. Some pericline crystals completes this combination. Bottom was on the rock, and there is one small damage on one of the rhomboid surface.

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

Quartz

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

Pericline

Variety Of: 

Albite

Formula: 
NaAlSi3O8
Strunz: 
9.FA.35
Hardness: 
6.0 - 6.5
Hardness: 
0.0
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