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Kësterite & Mushistonite

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Kësterite & Mushistonite

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Description
Locality: 
Pingwu Mine, Mount Xuebaoding, Pingwu County, Mianyang, Sichuan Province, China (Peoples Republic)
Class: 
Combination
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5 × 4 × 3 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.50cm
Description

A fantastic, rich specimen with very good kesterite crystals up to 1.5 cm. With a green coating of mushistonite. Kesterite crystals - several of them twinned - all around the specimen on a glossy-black sphalerite base. The sharpest and most excellent kesterite crystals come from this locality. This is my best and last specimen from this long gone find.

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

Mushistonite

Formula: 
(Cu,Zn,Fe2+)[Sn(OH)6]
Strunz: 
4.FC.10
Hardness: 
4.0 - 4.5
Type Locality: 
Mushiston Deposit, Kaznok Valley, Pendzhikent (Penjikent; Panjakent), Zeravshan Range, Viloyati Sogd (Viloyati Sughd; Viloyati Khodzhent; Viloyati Leninabad), Tajikistan

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