Description
This rutile and hematite on quartz is from Novo Horizonte in Bahia, Brazil. This locale is famous for the rutilated quartz and rutile on hematite specimens found there. Hematite and rutile are both oxides. This specimen consists of a small crystalline quartz matrix that hosts small hematite crystals and sprays of golden elongated rutile crystals. .. This piece measures approximately mm.
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