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Rutile as Sagenite Pseudomorphs after Ilmenite

 Arzo ridge, Robiei, Val Bavona, Ticino, Switzerland


yellow to bronze-colored rutile as a lattice-shaped "sagenite" on milky-white albite (in pericline habit), with dark green clinochlore and silvery muscovite flakes on graphitic mica schist. This rutile displaced a large former ilmenite  in the base zone of the large disthene quartz/clinochlore fracture No.201 on the Arzo Ridge. It yielded particularly attractive sagenite specimens in August and September 2022

 (see LAPIS 2/2023)

Rutile (sagenite pseudomorphs after ilmenite) – Arzo Ridge, Ticino, Switzerland

SKU: 24.07.52
€115.00Price
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  • Size

    6 cm x 5.2 cm, Sagenite grid 3 cm wide

  • Locality

    Arzo ridge, Robiei, Val Bavona, Ticino, Switzerland

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