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Rutile

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Rutile

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Description
Locality: 
Kinyanfumbe, Eastern Province, Zambia
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.6 × 1.4 × 1.4 cm
Description

A highly lustrous, striated cyclic twin of metallic Rutile on a limonite matrix from Kinyanfumbe, Zambia.

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
Silmarils Minerals