Mineral: Rutile sixling (idealized drawing) from Graves Mountain, Georgia USA.
Description: Drawing from G. H. Williams (1890), "Elements of Crystallography," Henry Holt Publishers (New York), p. 198, as reproduced in "Annual Report of the Geological Survey of Arkansas for 1890," vol. 2 (1891), p. 325. Note Williams' use of the term "sixling." This idealized drawing originally appeared in Professor Gustav Rose's 1862 article, and was attributed to Graves Mountain, not Magnet Cove as Williams reported.

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