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Cassiterite On Quartz

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Cassiterite On Quartz

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Description
Locality: 
Wheal Pendarves, Troon, Cornwall, United Kingdom
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.6 × 1.3 × 1.3 cm
Description

A cracking little thumb nail specimen displaying a single undamaged detached quartz crystal with bright cassiterite crystals to 3 mm surrounding it's base.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Cassiterite

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

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
7.0
Streak: 
White