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Titanite

Classic Locality

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Description
Locality: 
Teufelsmühle, Habach Valley, Hohe Tauern, Salzburg, Austria
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.4 × 2.5 × 1.2 cm
Description

Gemmy green titanite crystals with classical twinning. The crystals are quite aerial, well exposed off the matrix, covering transparent scalenohedral calcites. Some titanite terminations are brown, and the vitreous lustre of all crystals is superb!. Classic alpine locality.

Ex. Chris Deroo.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Titanite

Formula: 
CaTi(SiO4)O
Strunz: 
9.AG.15
Hardness: 
5.0 - 5.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Titanite occurrence, Hauzenberg, Lower Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany

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