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Photograph of RutileRUTILE
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Graves Mountain, Georgia, USA

Graves Mountain is famous for its large, well-formed, lustrous crystals of rutile. This is one of the finest specimens known from this deposit.

Size: 20 cm tall

Acquired: 1979 purchase, Hixon Fund

Disposition: On display in the Mineral Classics exhibit.

Catalog Number: 20609