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Titanite

- Formula
- CaTiSiO5
- Crystal System
- Monoclinic
- Crystal Habit
- Massive - Lamellar, Crystalline - Fine
- Cleavage
- Distinct, Imperfect, Imperfect
- Luster
- Adamantine - Resinous
- Color
- reddish brown, gray, yellow, green, red
- Streak
- reddish white
- Class
- Monoclinic - Prismatic
- Fracture
- Sub Conchoidal
- Hardness
- 5-5.5
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Titanite from Kirovskii mine, Kukisvumchorr Mt., Khibiny Massif, Kola Peninsula, Russia

Yellow Titanite crystallized in an unusual needle-like and divergent habit. The sprays are to 3cm and the black matrix is probably Aegerine. Nice example.
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Titanite from Cavradi gorge, Tavetsch, Grischun, Switzerland

Sharp orange-brown, flashy Titanite crystals from 4-5 with green crystals of Clinochlore.
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Titanite from Skardu dist., Balistan, Northern Areas, Pakistan
Orange brown crystal plate.
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Titanite from Jefferson Co., Montana, United States
Reddish brown translucent crystal.
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Titanite from Mina Tiro Estrella, El Capitan Mts, Lincoln Co., New Mexico, United States
Red, lustrous micro crystals to 3mm on Quartz.
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Titanite from Manton Avenue quarry, Manton, Providence Co., Rhode Island, United States
An "old-timer" obtained by Hampson in 1965 with yellow Titanite crystals to 2cm in metamorphic rock, perhaps Fuchsite.
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