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Rutile Var Sagenite

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Rutile Var Sagenite

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Description
Locality: 
Hospental, Urseren, Uri, Switzerland
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.5 × 4.5 × 3.3 cm
Description

Older specimen featuring grey calcite crystals on a Matrix of siderite and quartz combined with some isolated rutile crystals and two areas covered with "sagenite", one on the backside. Former collection of H. Gutknecht, Basel.

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

Sagenite

Variety Of: 

Rutile

Formula: 
TiO2
Strunz: 
4.DB.05
Hardness: 
6.0 - 6.5
Synonym Of: 

Sagenite (of Kunz)

Hardness: 
0.0

Sagenite (of Saussure)

Hardness: 
0.0

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