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Titanite On Quartz

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Titanite On Quartz

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Description
Locality: 
Tête Noire, Le Trient Valley, Valais, Switzerland
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.2 × 2.7 × 1.7 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.60cm
Description

Green lustrous twinned crystals of titanite on transparent quartz. Acquired in 1982 from local collectors by Marcel Cromphout, a known Belgian collector of (mainly) quartz specimens.

Ex. Marcel Cromphout #1791.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

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

Quartz

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

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