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Anatase With Rutile

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Anatase With Rutile

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Description
Locality: 
Cuiabá, Gouveia, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.9 × 1.3 × 1 cm
Description

Cruciform aggregate of sharp iridescent anatase crystals with good lustre and cream colour, associated to golden yellow rutile needles, clearly grown as epitaxial crystals. The termination is very sharp, gemmy and of honey colour. Mounted in a socle.

Acquired to Luis Menezes in 2012.

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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...

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

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