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Xenotime-(Y) Anatase Brookite & Rutile

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Xenotime-(Y) Anatase Brookite & Rutile

Classic Locality

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Description
Locality: 
Grauleiten Peak, Ankogel, Hohe Tauern, Carinthia, Austria
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.2 × 1.6 × 1.2 cm
Description

An interesting thumbnail from a high-altitude cleft system in the Austrian Alps, pale straw-yellow prismatic xenotime-(Y) microcrystals add to a nice association of the three classic titanium dioxide polymorphs - brown anatase, dark fibrous rutile and fire-red brookite.

Ex P.L. Prandoni specimen, with original box and label.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Xenotime-(Y)

Formula: 
Y(PO4)
Strunz: 
8.AD.35
Crystal System: 
Tetragonal
Hardness: 
4.0 - 5.0
Type Locality: 
Hidra (Hitterø), Flekkefjord, Vest-Agder, Norway

Anatase

Formula: 
TiO2
Strunz: 
4.DD.05
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.0
Type Locality: 
St Christophe-en-Oisans, Bourg d'Oisans, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France...

Brookite

Formula: 
TiO2
Strunz: 
4.DD.10
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.0
Type Locality: 
Twll Maen Grisial, Fron Olau, Prenteg, Gwynedd (Caernarvonshire), Wales, UK

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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We offer rare minerals to systematic collectors worldwide, doing our best to ensure accurate identification and provide adequate information and pictures.

Through extensive field search and contacts with trusted sources, we manage to provide the best in newly found species and classic type-locality minerals. Should your item prove to be different we offer an immediate refund of purchase.

Items may be returned within 15 days of receipt, please note that return costs are at customer's expense. We will issue refund as soon as we receive the item in unaltered condition.

Preferred payment is via Paypal, please follow instructions at ceckout and make payment to: [email protected] . If you don't have a Paypal account you can as well pay with your credit card following instructions for non-Paypal users.

Alternatively we accept bank transfer to: Roberto Bracco - bank: Intesa Sanpaolo - via Paleocapa 134/R - 17100 Savona, Italy.

IBAN code: IT79P0306910600100000067863 SWIFT code: BCITITMM

Cash and checks not accepted.

To contact us and ask questions about items on sale, please e-mail to: [email protected]  - phone: +39.3381058295. Returned items should be sent to: Roberto Bracco, piazza Monticello 12/2, 17100 Savona, Italy