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Anatase In Dauphine Quartz

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Anatase In Dauphine Quartz

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Description
Locality: 
Matskorhæ, Hardangervidda West, Odda, Vestland, Norway
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.3 × 1.2 × 0.7 cm
Description

Tiny lustrous deep blue anatase crystals of acute dipyramidal habit, included in a transparent quartz crystal. Very special in this specimen is the quartz crystal, that show on the striated surface of the prism faces numerous shiny roughly irregular patches, that are characteristic on Dauphiné-Law twins.

Collected by Jan Sibtsen in 1975-77. Ex Jan Sibtsen #2981.

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Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Anatase

Formula: 
TiO2
Strunz: 
4.DD.05
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.0
Type Locality: 
St Christophe-en-Oisans, Bourg d'Oisans, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France...

Dauphine Quartz

Variety Of: 

Quartz

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

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