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Rutile – Pizzo Prevat, Ticino, Switzerland
Rutile as copper-red needles
Pizzo Prevat, Sella Pass, Gotthard region, Ticino, Switzerland
 
Slender copper-red Rutile prism with a length of 1.1 cm, grown with additional Rutile fibres on clear Adularia crystals, coating snow-white drusy Albite gneiss. Very showy specimen with perfect colour contrast! New find in August 2022 on the southern flank of Pizzo Prevat, in the border area Ticino/Uri (cf. LAPIS 4/2021)

Rutile – Pizzo Prevat, Ticino, Switzerland

SKU: 23.01.22 SW-150

  • size

    5.5 x 4.2 x 2.5 cm, rutile needles up to 1.1 cm

  • locality

    Pizzo Prevat, Sella Pass, Gotthard area, Ticino, Switzerland

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