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Rutile & Diaspore

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Description
Locality: 
Champion Mine, White Mountains, Mono County, California, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4.2 × 3.5 × 1.9 cm
Description

dark red rutile crystals on a matrix covered by platy brown diaspore; sold with an old label

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

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

Diaspore

Formula: 
AlO(OH)
Strunz: 
4.FD.10
Hardness: 
6.5 - 7.0
Streak: 
white
Type Locality: 
Mramorskii Zavod (Mramorsk Zavod), Kosoi Brod Village, Ekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk), Sverdlovskaya Oblast', Middle Urals, Urals Region, Russia...