AllMinerals/JohnBetts-FineMinerals > Online Mineral Museum Photographic Archive > Minerals from Brazil > Rutile and Hematite on Quartz with Rutile inclusions |
DESCRIPTION: | No. 72772 |
Mineral: | Rutile and Hematite on Quartz with Rutile inclusions |
Locality: | Ibitiara, south of Novo Horizonte, Bahia, Brazil |
Description: | Lustrous straw-yellow fibrous rutile crystals to 8 mm with minor dark-metallic hematite crystals to 4 mm on, and included within lustrous transparent colorless quartz crystals to 20 mm. The rutile crystals appear chatoyant in parallel aggregates. Ex. D. Miller collection; collected ca. 1995 |
Overall Size: | 5.5x5x2.5 cm |
Crystals: | 1-20 mm |
Archived: | For reference only |
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