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Anatase & Sagenite

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Anatase & Sagenite

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Description
Locality: 
Yates Brooks Farm, Lattimore, Cleveland County, North Carolina, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4.3 × 3.5 × 2.8 cm
Weight: 
31.00gr
Description

Tiny lustrous deep blue anatase crystals of acute dipyramidal habit, associated to star-like clusters of thin, golden sagenite rutile crystals. The matrix is a cluster of lustrous, almost transparent muscovite crystals of superb lustre.

Acquired in 1974 to Excalibur Mineral by Ghislaine De Jonghe (specimen #385), who built her collection from early 1960’s to early 2000’s.

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Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Anatase

Formula: 
TiO2
Strunz: 
4.DD.05
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.0
Type Locality: 
St Christophe-en-Oisans, Bourg d'Oisans, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France...

Sagenite

Variety Of: 

Rutile

Formula: 
TiO2
Strunz: 
4.DB.05
Hardness: 
6.0 - 6.5
Synonym Of: 

Sagenite (of Kunz)

Hardness: 
0.0

Sagenite (of Saussure)

Hardness: 
0.0

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