Description

Superb crystals perfectly automorphic and of good size of red rutile nicely lustered in a very pale gneiss. A main crystal of 1,5×1 cm is well highlighted and several smaller crystals are visible.

Specimen from the Valentin Sicher collection (with label), mineral from the quarries near Iragna in Tessin, Switzerland.

Here is a video of these good rutile crystals from Switzerland:

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