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Rutile On Albite

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Rutile On Albite

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Description
Locality: 
Lanterdan Quarry, Tintagel, Cornwall, United Kingdom
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
5.5 × 8 × 3 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.50cm
Weight: 
84.00gr
Description

A specimen of vuggy milky white quartz with  rutile, albite, chlorite and pyrite on two display faces.  The rutile occurs as free grown crystals in vugs. The rutile is clean and bright golden yellow. The rutile displays sagenitic twinning.

 

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

Albite

Formula: 
NaAlSi3O8
Strunz: 
9.FA.35
Crystal System: 
Triclinic
Hardness: 
6.0 - 6.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Finnbo (Finbo), Falun, Dalarna, Sweden

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