Rutile

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This is an approximately 3.5-cm-long elbow-twinned rutile from what, to me, must be the most amazing find for the species since Graves Mountain's heyday. These came out in the late 90s in one small batch, and seem to have gone the way of the dodo since. Haven't seen one this nice in awhile. In fact, I cannot recall seeing one so sharp, twinned, and so complete all around like this even when they briefly were available. This lustrous, super-sharp rutile crystal is dramatically perched on matrix of crystallized quartz, exposed on all sides! It is perfect all around except for a few very minor contacts in the back side. For my taste, and for what I recall of seeing in this find, I think it is a stellar miniature I would rank near the top