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Titanite & Quartz

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Description
Locality: 
Zillertal, North Tyrol, Tyrol, Austria
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
11.1 × 10.7 × 6.9 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.80cm
Weight: 
603.00gr
Description

Good size specimen (600g) with two contacted crystals of quartz, that reach 7 cm, and dozens of sharp super lustrous titanite crystals that show mostly contact twins on {100}, with nice olive green colour with caramel brown terminations. They are quite transparent and extremely bright. Rounded, dark green clusters of chlorite complete the paragenesis.

Ex Emile Requette specimen, #148.

Combine specimens to reduce shipping costs!.

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

Quartz

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

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