Brookite, Quartz
Le Bourg-d'Oisans, Grenoble, Isère, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
6.1 x 3.6 x 1.8 cm. A rare, old-time, and superb combination specimen from the Rhone-Alpes area of France. Two, red paper arrows point the way to two, thin, tabular, brown brookite crystals hidden in a jackstraw cluster of glassy, water-clear quartz crystals. The large brookite is 6 mm. Ex. George Elling Collection.
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