Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Hematite & Rutile

Views:
Watches:
SYA752636

Hematite & Rutile

Ex Toni Imhof, Binn
Classic Locality

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Chriegalp Valley, Binn, Goms, Valais, Switzerland
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.8 × 5 × 3.5 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.80cm
Description

A group of dark metallic hematite crystals and red-brown rutile on matrix

Specimen found by Toni Imhof, Binn about 1970

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Hematite

Formula: 
Fe2O3
Strunz: 
4.CB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
5.0 - 6.0

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

Seller Information

Payment options: offline, paypal_wpp, paypal_wps