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Quartz With Rutile Inclusions

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SPH164542

Quartz With Rutile Inclusions

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Description
Locality: 
Siachen Glacier, Ghanche District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4.4 × 2.4 × 1.5 cm
Description

A wonderful doubly-terminated, lustrous and gemmy quartz with rutile inclusions of great red color.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
7.0
Streak: 
White

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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