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Brookite With Quartz

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Brookite With Quartz

Former collection Christian Mavris
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Description
Locality: 
Intschi Tobel, Intschi, Reuss Valley, Uri, Switzerland
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.1 × 6.3 × 5.5 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.50cm
Weight: 
230.00gr
Description

Possibly one of the most famous Alpine localities for brookite, Intschi Tobel set the standard for this titanium oxide polymorph long before Pakistani specimens appeared on the market.

The current specimen is a drusy featuring a dozen of flattened, faden-like quartz crystals of very good lustre, partly transparent, which serve as a carpet to a thick brown tabular crystal of brookite. Brookite has a good lustre and transparency, and it is perched exactly in the middle of the drusy. 

Hard to spot on the market, brookite from Intschi is definitely one of the Swiss must-have.

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Mineral Data
What's on the rock

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

Quartz

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

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