McGregor Lake, Val-des-Monts, Les Collines-de-l'Outaouais RCM, Outaouais, Québec, Canada

60 degree twin crystals of reddish-brown rutile. Overall size of mineral specimen: 20x15x13 mm. Size of individual crystals: 6-10 mm.

© 2001 John H. Betts

Crystals of unidentified scapolite group mineral in diopside(?). Obtained from E. Grundel in Sept. 1994. Alan Goldstein specimen (1855) and photo.

© Alan Goldstein

The large crystal is 3cm long. Field of view is 4.5 x 3 cm

© Derek Neufeld

Pale tan zircon crystal associated with dark brown rutile. FOV is about 2.5 mm in length. Specimen purchased from Tony Gordian at the London, Ontario Gem and Mineral Show on November 17, 2012. The zircon fluoresces bright yellow-orange under SW UV light, and a similar but less intense color under MW UV. Reaction under LW UV is a very subdued ...

© SMS 2012

2.0 x 1.5 x 1.0 cm

© Maggie Wilson

Rutile crystals to 15 mm, with sparse zircon to 2 mm on 20 x 20 cm matrix.

© P.M. Belley

© Maggie Wilson

Distinct crystal of an unidentified scapolite group mineral in diopside(?). Obtained from E. Grundel in Sept. 1994. Alan Goldstein specimen (1855) and photo. Crystal is 1.4 cm wide.

© Alan Goldstein

Dark needles of "riebeckite". Find, collection and photo Erik Vercammen

Terminated aegirine crystals, according to visual ID by David K. Joyce and Philippe Belley. Personally collected

© JR Montgomery

Several crystals of what appear to be aegirine according to visual ID by David K. Joyce and Philippe Belley. Some are terminated and sit nicely in matrix. Personally collected JR Montgomery Collection cat.#201

© JR Montgomery

Voici un magnifique spécimen de rutile, coudé et jumelé avec de multiples terminaisons à son extrémité. La couleur est d'un rouge vif, passant de rouge vin à rouge framboise. Une pièce en très bonne condition et avec un esthétique exquis. Quelques petits morceaux de baryte rosés se sont cristallisés sur le coude et des cristaux ...

© Janik Spattz Photographe

Pericline-type albite, with minor green "amphibole". A gift from the late Jerry Van Velthuizen in 1994. Collection and photo Erik Vercammen.

Personally collected off a large boulder, 2014 JR Montgomery Collection cat.#202

© JR Montgomery

A large crystal of 'scapolite' (probably meionite), with the c-axis nearly horizontal and with a lot of faces: 3 prisms, and 2 times 2 dipiramids. Find, collection and photo Erik Vercammen.

Intergrown crystals of 'scapolite' (probably meionite) with good terminations and a brown staining. Find, collection and photo Erik Vercammen

A nice contrast of bleu apatite in pink calcite, but alas, no crystals. Find, collection and photo Erik Vercammen.

H:3.2cm x W:1.2cm x D:1cm A shiny terminated cluster of rutile crystals. The termination is somewhat irregular but is not damaged.

© Maggie Wilson

3,1cm x 2,8cm The Rutile crystals are 60 degree twins with rich reddish-brown color.

© Quebul Fine Minerals

Terminated 3.1 cm. rutile crystal in a Microcline and Baryte matrix with bright green terminated Aegirine crystals dispersed over the specimen.

© JR Montgomery

Terminated rutile with anhedral barite on a fenite rock matrix ex. Phil Belley Collection

© JR Montgomery

Doubly terminated rutile crystal 3.2cm on baryte matrix

© JR Montgomery

RUTILE

© Quebul Fine Minerals

A terminated twin crystal JR Montgomery Collection cat.#198

© JR Montgomery

This is a lustrous, brown, double terminated rutile crystal to 17mm on matrix, associated with small pale pink crystals of albite and light brown, acicular diopside.

© P. Nicholson

Voici un magnifique cristal du rutile allongé, entrelacé avec un plus petit cristal sur le dessus de la pièce. L'extrémité du rutile est composé de multiples terminaisons givrés ce qui lui donne un aspect unique. Une couleur rouge framboise, passant par toutes les teintes d'orangées, donnant un éclat vif et limpide, qui nous donne ...

© Janik Spattz

McGregor Lake Gatineau TE Outaouais, Québec, Canada SIZE: 7 x 7 x 4 cm - Rutile: 3.4 x 2.2 x 1.5 cm

© 2017 - Bill Morgenstern/Earth Moods

Several crystals of what appear to be aegirine according to visual ID by David K. Joyce and Philippe Belley. Some are terminated and sit nicely in matrix. Personally collected JR Montgomery Collection cat.#201

© JR Montgomery

I inherited this specimen from Domenic Olivieri of Wakefield, Quebec in 2018.

© Jeffrey de Fourestier

Thumbnail of 60 degree twinned rutile crystals.

Terminated 3.1 cm. rutile crystal in a Microcline and Baryte matrix with bright green terminated Aegirine crystals dispersed over the specimen.

© JR Montgomery

This is a lustrous, brown, double terminated rutile crystal to 17mm on matrix, associated with small pale pink crystals of albite and light brown, acicular diopside.

© P. Nicholson

I chipped this off a large boulder, 2014 JR Montgomery Collection cat.#202

© JR Montgomery

Cluster of multiple dark red rutile crystals showing geniculate twinning habit.

© Beau Crockett

Personally collected off a large boulder, 2014 JR Montgomery Collection cat.#202

© JR Montgomery

Thumbnail specimen of reddish-brown well-formed and terminated Rutile crystals, McGregor Lake, Val-des-Monts, Québec, Canada. Purchased in 2024 during the Ottawa Lapsmith Mineral Club’s 56th Annual Gem & Mineral Show from a local Quebec collector. The locality is now closed to collecting.

Rutile. Purchased from Tony Gordion, as part of a group of specimens, during Fall of 2010.

Beautiful red rutile intergrown with albite from McGregor Lake in Canada.

© Paul Senn