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Tourmaline Anatase & Pyrite

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Locality: 
Beura Quarries, Beura-Cardezza, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.1 × 2.1 × 2.6 cm
Description

truly a very aesthetic specimen featuring hundreds of tourmaline needles that host blue anatase or golden cubes of pyrite ; under scope is wonderful indeed 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Tourmaline

Formula: 

A(D3)G6(T6O18)(BO3)3X3Z

Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
7

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...

Pyrite

Formula: 
FeS2
Strunz: 
2.EB.05a
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
6.0 - 6.5

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