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Rutile With Siderite & Muscovite

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Rutile With Siderite & Muscovite

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Description
Locality: 
Formazza Valley, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
5.7 × 7.5 × 2.8 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.00cm
Weight: 
60.00gr
Description

An elegant miniature of elongated dark red, lustrous rutile crystals associated to brown siderite and silvery grey muscovite. Rutile is well developed and in excellent conditions, and a smaller individual even shows a twinning.
Good representative Alpine specimen!

 

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Mineral Data
What's on the rock

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

Siderite

Formula: 
FeCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.5
Streak: 
White

Muscovite

Formula: 
KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
Strunz: 
9.EC.15
Hardness: 
2.5
Streak: 
White

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