Rutile

  
Rutile on quartz
Origin: Modriach, Styria, Austria
Ex. Wein collection
Sample size: 8.0 x 5.0 x 3.0 cm
 
  
Origin: Brumado, Bahia, Brazil
Sample size: 7.0 x 1.0 x 0.8 cm
 
  
Rutile twin
Origin: Graves Mountain, Lincoln County, Georgia, U.S.A.
Ex. Charlie Key collection
Sample size: 4.6 x 4.6 x 2.7 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone

 

  
  
Origin: Kapudzhukh (Kapuldzhyk) Mts, Naxçıvan (Naxcivan; Nakhichevan) Muxtar Respublikasi, Azerbaijan
Sample size: 3 x 3.5 x 5.1 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Dan Weinrich

Dealer in fine mineral specimens

 

  
Black lustrous, short prismatic rutile crystals to 1.5 cm with a blood-red internal reflection on a quartz matrix. One of the crystals has a naturally repaired fracture.
Origin: Kapudzhukh Mtns., Azerbaijan
Sample size: 6 x 5 x 4 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Tom Loomis

Dakota Matrix Minerals

 

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