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Rutile With Adularia & Siderite

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Rutile With Adularia & Siderite

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Description
Locality: 
San Giacomo Pass, Maria Luisa Refuge, Formazza, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.5 × 3.2 × 1.5 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.10cm
Weight: 
15.00gr
Description

Small miniature consisting of dark red lustrous rutile crystals, nicely perched on candidn white adularia crystals and associated to hazel brown siderite crystals.
An Alpine classic from Val Formazza!

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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

Adularia

Formula: 
KAlSi3O8
Strunz: 
9.FA.30
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
6 Ortho - clase

Siderite

Formula: 
FeCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.5
Streak: 
White

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