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Cassiterite & Gilbertite

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Cassiterite & Gilbertite

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Description
Locality: 
Sauberg Mine, Ehrenfriedersdorf, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
Class: 
Single Crystal
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2 × 2.9 × 1.8 cm
Description

A huge chunk of a lustrous single and visor twinned cassiterite crystal measuring to 2.9 cm with black colour. On the back the typical gilbertite coating as an  indicator for definitely beeing Ehrenfriedersdorf material.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Cassiterite

Formula: 
SnO2
Strunz: 
4.DB.05
Crystal System: 
Tetragonal
Hardness: 
6.0 - 7.0

Gilbertite

Variety Of: 

Muscovite

Formula: 
KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
Strunz: 
9.EC.15
Hardness: 
2.5
Hardness: 
0.0

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Marco Drechsel

SPK Mittelsachsen

SWIFT/BIC-Code: WELADED1FGX

IBAN: DE49 870520004111076110