Monday, March 9, 2009

quartz crystal with rutile


I have just photographed this quartz crystal with rutile. It's interesting because it has gold coloured threads of rutile (titanium dioxide) inside. Here is a cool website for semi-precious crystals.

http://www.mana.uk.com/index.html Click on "Display Pieces - Crystals, Minerals and Fossils

3 comments:

Mr Dredge said...

Great work, Pheynia - a super picture!

bradley said...

Nice picture Pheynia!!
Great picture.
But what is rutile??
Bradley

josh the king said...

Where did you find it?