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Rutile

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Description
Locality: 
Kinyanfumbe, Eastern Province, Zambia
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.7 × 2.7 × 4.2 cm
Description

A showy specimen with thick, lustrous and striated, deep wine-red rutile crystals nicely set in limonite matrix. The rutile shows the classic cyclic-twin.

Excellent specimen, this was originally labelled as being from Kipushi, but later it was given as Kinyanfumbe, closed to the Congo border.

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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