Rutile

specimen number:
8911122

location:
Graves Mtn., Lincoln Co., Georgia, USA

description:

A loose double terminated lustrous sharply formed crystal of rutile with little attached matrix. In good condition all around. The specimen comes with a previous label from the Alton collection.

Graves Mountain in Lincoln County, Georgia, is a prominent monadnock underlain by metamorphosed volcanic and sedimentary rocks belonging to the Little River Series within the Carolina slate belt. Historically, the site gained international renown in the mid-nineteenth century for yielding world-class, mirror-finished, prismatic rutile crystals found within quartz-kyanite-pyrophyllite rock zones. While commercial operations later targeted the mountain for kyanite used in industrial refractories, the abandoned pits have long served as a premier destination for mineral collectors seeking exceptional specimens of rutile and associated minerals.

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