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Anatase Rutile & Brookite

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Anatase Rutile & Brookite

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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: 
3.1 × 2.8 × 2 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.70cm
Description

You are bidding on what is most likely one of the finest samples of anatase ever to come from the state of North Carolina. The sample of muscovite crystals hosts two fantastic, deep blue anatase crystals up to just above 7mm. Normally this locality produces crystals in the 1-2mm range. Also on this sample is a vug hosting tabular crystals of brookite and many small sprays and reticulated aggregates of rutile. A really choice North Carolina rarity and a must for the anatase collector. From my personal collection. 

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...

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

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

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