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Pseudobrookite

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Pseudobrookite

Ex Freiberg Mineral Repository, Saxony, Germany
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Description
Locality: 
Uroi Hill, Simeria, Hunedoara County, Romania
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
3.5 × 5 × 2 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.10cm
Weight: 
24.00gr
Description

A reddish matrix rock is hosting several mm-sized, black tabular crystals of pseudobrookite from the type locality "Uroi Hill (Arany Hill, 'Aranyerberg'), Simeria, Hunedoara County, Romania".

Comes with a beautiful old label of the K.S. (Königlich-Sächsische) Mineralien-Niederlage zu Freiberg, (Royal saxon mineral repository, Freiberg), in the hand of Wilhelm Maucher, who was Faktor in 1904-1909.
Before the First World War, the locality belonged to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, now it is part of modern Romania.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Pseudobrookite

Formula: 
Fe2TiO5
Strunz: 
4.CB.15
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic - Dipyramidal
Hardness: 
6.0
Streak: 
Brown
Type Locality: 
Uroi Hill (Arany Hill), Simeria, Hunedoara Co., Romania

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Germany (trackable & insured, up to 5 kg)
7
EU countries (trackable, up to 2 kg)
13
Switzerland and UK (trackable, up to 2 kg)
18
Rest of World (trackable, up to 2 kg)
22.50

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