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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: 
4.5 × 2.9 × 1.3 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.70cm
Weight: 
15.00gr
Description

Double terminated dark brown rutile with black-brown, metallic lustre, cropping out of white quartz matrix. Textbook shape for the rutile,with good growth patterns along some faces. Some minor peripheral contacts, but nothing major.

Oropa rutile is among the most sought-after in Italy, and individuals of this quality are very scarce. This is a few years old, obtained last summer from a local collector.

Very esthetic and photogenic, from a classic Piedmont locality.

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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