MINERALS INDEX
Rutile |
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| Tetragonal |
Forms
a(100), m(110), e(101), and s(111).
Habit
Minute crystals of rutile of black color and brilliant metallic luster are found with
other minerals in several localities in the Franklin limestone—with brown tourmaline
in the Furnace quarry, with corundum and titanite in the limestone at the old furnace at
Franklin, and generally in those pockets in which corundum is found. Rutile was seen with
the brown tourmaline from the limestone quarries at Rudeville.
At Sterling Hill it was found attached to corundum crystals that came from the stripping of the calamine deposit. In no place was rutile found in direct association with the primary zinc ores.
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