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Anatase & Rutile On Adularia

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QRI1046200

Anatase & Rutile On Adularia

Ex coll. Lehmann (CH)
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Description
Locality: 
Vals Valley, Surselva Region, Grisons, Switzerland
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.3 × 5 × 3 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.10cm
Weight: 
85.00gr
Description

A floater group of white adularia crystals featuring half a dozen orange bipyramidal anatase crystals with good lustre. Noteworthy, the key of the specimen is given by one anatase crystal, fully replaced by dark, very lustrus rutile needles.

From the Swiss collection Lehmann, whose handwritten specimen in German is pasted on the specimen, it dates back to the pre-1980s.

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Mineral Data
What's on the rock

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...

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

Adularia

Formula: 
KAlSi3O8
Strunz: 
9.FA.30
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
6 Ortho - clase

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