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Rock Crystal Ilmenite & Titanite

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Rock Crystal Ilmenite & Titanite

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Description
Locality: 
Gamsmutter, Habach Valley, Hohe Tauern, Salzburg, Austria
Class: 
Combination
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.9 × 3.5 × 1.9 cm
Description

What a cool combination. Two single crystals holding a perfect and double terminated other crystal at their verry top. This DT crystal is highly loaded in ilmenite and ecen some titanite. Additionally you can see some chlorine too. Fantastic alpine combination.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Rock Crystal

Variety Of: 

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Hardness: 
7.0
Formula: 
Hardness: 
0.0

Ilmenite

Formula: 
Fe2+TiO3
Strunz: 
4.CB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal - Rhombohedral
Hardness: 
5.0 - 6.0
Type Locality: 
Ilmen Natural Reserve, Ilmen Mts, Chelyabinsk Oblast', Southern Urals, Urals Region, Russia...

Titanite

Formula: 
CaTi(SiO4)O
Strunz: 
9.AG.15
Hardness: 
5.0 - 5.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Titanite occurrence, Hauzenberg, Lower Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany