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Quartz With Rutile Inclusions With Calcite Albite & Chlorite

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Quartz With Rutile Inclusions With Calcite Albite & Chlorite

Ex Brian Shelton Collection

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Description
Locality: 
Andermatt, Uri, Switzerland
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.3 × 2.8 × 2.6 cm
Description

A single doubly terminated quartz crystal that has been heavily empregnated with green chlorite leaving a single window to display the gemmy interior of the  quartz crystal with its bladed rutile inclusions. The quartz rests on a matrix of calcite & albite

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

Calcite

Polymorph of: 
Formula: 
CaCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.0
Streak: 
White

Albite

Formula: 
NaAlSi3O8
Strunz: 
9.FA.35
Crystal System: 
Triclinic
Hardness: 
6.0 - 6.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Finnbo (Finbo), Falun, Dalarna, Sweden

Chlorite

Synonym Of: 

Chlorite Group

Group Parent: 
Chlorite
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
2 - 2.5
Colour: 
Green, Grey, Brown
Streak: 
colourless
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