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Rutile

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Description
Locality: 
Rønholt, Bamble, Vestfold og Telemark, Norway
Class: 
Single Crystal
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.6 × 1.9 × 1.8 cm
Description

A 3.6 cm terminated rutile crystal with some greenish apatite as matrix. The label from Stockholm University, dated 1872, says: "from apatite vein at Rønholt in Bamble". This is where the operations for the old Ødegården verk apatite mines started at around this time.

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

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