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Rutile

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Description
Locality: 
Oropa, Biella Province, Piedmont, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.7 × 2.7 × 3 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.90cm
Weight: 
33.00gr
Description

Double terminated dark brown rutile with jet black, metallic lustre, cropping out of white quartz matrix. Textbook shape for the rutile, which features a rather dramatic shape, with good growth patterns along some faces. One minor missing side on the back of the specimen, a typical feature for those crystals that grow within the hard quartzite matrix.

Oropa rutile is among the most sought-after in Italy, and individuals of this quality are very scarce.

Very esthetic and photogenic, from a classic Piedmont locality.

Collected: 
2017
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

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