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Rutile In Muscovite

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Rutile In Muscovite

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Description
Locality: 
Boiling Springs, Cleveland County, North Carolina, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.9 × 1.8 × 1.2 cm
Description

Lustrous brown-red needles and some twinned crystals of rutile, richly associated to green clusters of translucent pseudo-hexagonal muscovite crystals of pearly lustre. Classic specimen from Boiling Springs but rarely available nowadays.

Acquired in 1989. Ex Dr. Bob Janssens #359.

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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

Muscovite

Formula: 
KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
Strunz: 
9.EC.15
Hardness: 
2.5
Streak: 
White

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