Rutile is an ore of titanium. Rutile ctystals come in a variety of colors including reddish brown, red, pale yellow, violet, black and pale blue. Rutile is an oxide maineral: Titanium dioxide. Hardness 6.0 to 6.50. Acicular to Prismatic crystals; Tetragonal. Natural Rutile may contain up to 10% iron and significant amounts of niobium and tantalum. The name derives from the Latin: "rutilus", red, in reference to the deep red color observed in some specimens when viewed by transmitted light.
Very fine rutile needle-like crystals sometimes form in quartz and is referred to as rutilated quartz; somewhat rare.
Rutile is a common accessory mineral in high-temperature and high-pressure metamorphic rocks and in igneous rocks.
Some pieces have one or two flat sides from where the specimen was broken from a larger crystal. These specimens were collected in the 1970's.

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M717 - Rutile specimens from Graves Mountain, Lincoln County, Georgia.

Ugly, ugly, ugly. About as ugly as Ray is..(Almost!)...They don't have much of a crystal structure to them.