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Brookite On Quartz

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Brookite On Quartz

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Description
Locality: 
Zard Mountain, Kharan, Baluchistan, Pakistan
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8.2 × 4.9 × 2.5 cm
Description

Countless blades of excellent shaped and sharp crystals of  Ti-oxide Brookite perched on some clusters of Fadenquartz. The mirror bright and almost superb terminated tabular crystals are transparent, reddish-brown coloured with a partly distinctive and also typical hourglass structure. There are only minor imperfection almost not worth to be reported. In any case a super contrastful specimen in excellent condition.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Brookite

Formula: 
TiO2
Strunz: 
4.DD.10
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.0
Type Locality: 
Twll Maen Grisial, Fron Olau, Prenteg, Gwynedd (Caernarvonshire), Wales, UK

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
7.0
Streak: 
White
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