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Brookite & Rutile

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Brookite & Rutile

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Description
Locality: 
Spalding, Mount Lofty Ranges, South Australia, Australia
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.5 × 2.3 × 2 cm
Description

 A lattice work of pale yellow rutile passes over and through parallel growing brookite crystals in an open cavity in massive quartz

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

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
Earthstones Australia

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