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Stannite

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Stannite

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Description
Locality: 
Yaogangxian Mine, Hunan Province, China (Peoples Republic)
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.3 × 6 × 3.3 cm
Description

A major and showy stannite specimen richly covered with lustrous, discrete crystals and nicely complimented by a water-clear quartz crystal, lustrous arsenopyrite crystals and very small fluorite crystals.

Beautiful with no damage.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Stannite

Formula: 
Cu2(Fe,Zn)SnS4
Strunz: 
2.CB.15a
Crystal System: 
Tetragonal
Hardness: 
4.0
Streak: 
Black
Type Locality: 
West Wheal Kitty (Wheal Rock), West Wheal Kitty group, St Agnes, St Agnes District, Cornwall, England, UK