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Anatase Brookite & Milarite

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Anatase Brookite & Milarite

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Description
Locality: 
Shap Pink Quarry, Shap, Cumbria, United Kingdom
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.4 × 1.9 × 1.3 cm
Description

Dipyramidal dark blue to almost black anatase crystals with translucent brown bladed brookite and colourless milarite crystals

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...

Brookite

Formula: 
TiO2
Strunz: 
4.DD.10
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.0
Type Locality: 
Twll Maen Grisial, Fron Olau, Prenteg, Gwynedd (Caernarvonshire), Wales, UK

Milarite

Formula: 
K2Ca4Al2Be4Si24O60·H2O
Strunz: 
9.CM.05
Hardness: 
6.0
Type Locality: 
Giuv Valley, Tujetsch (Tavetsch), Vorderrhein Valley, Grischun (Grisons; Graubünden), Switzerland
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