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Quartz With Rutile & Hematite

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Quartz With Rutile & Hematite

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Description
Locality: 
Ibitiara, Bahia, Brazil
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.6 × 3.2 × 1.9 cm
Description

An impressive and highly aesthetic rutile quartz cluster from Brazil. At the base, there is a shiny, flattened hematite crystal, with golden, needle-like rutile crystals radiating from the center and growing into the quartz crystals.

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

Hematite

Formula: 
Fe2O3
Strunz: 
4.CB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
5.0 - 6.0

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Austria
6
EU
18
Rest of Europe
20
USA, Canada, Japan, 1 kg
26
Australia, New Zealand, 1 kg
32

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