| AllMinerals/JohnBetts-FineMinerals > Online Mineral Museum Photographic Archive > Minerals from Brazil > Rutile and Hematite |
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| DESCRIPTION: | No. 66410 |
| Mineral: | Rutile and Hematite |
| Locality: | Novo Horizonte, Bahia, Brazil |
| Description: | Lustrous needle-like yellow-metallic rutile crystals to 22 mm intergrown in with platy black-metallic hematite crystals to 28 mm. The rutile crystals are in parallel groups at 60° angles because of the epitaxial relationship to the hematite. |
| Overall Size: | 4x3x0.8 cm |
| Crystals: | 3-28 mm |
| Archived: | For reference only |
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