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Kësterite

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Kësterite

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Description
Locality: 
Pingwu Mine, Mount Xuebaoding, Pingwu County, Mianyang, Sichuan Province, China (Peoples Republic)
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.3 × 2.2 × 2 cm
Description

Very sharp kesterite crystals - from the locality that provides the best kesterite crystals worldwide. An outstanding, very attractive specimen.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Kësterite

Formula: 
Cu2(Zn,Fe)SnS4
Strunz: 
2.CB.15a
Hardness: 
4.5
Streak: 
Black
Type Locality: 
Këster Deposit (Kester Deposit), Arga-Ynnakh-Khaya granite Massif, Yana-Adycha Region, Yana River Basin, Verkhoyansk, Sakha Republic (Saha Republic; Yakutia), Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia

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