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Cassiterite

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Description
Locality: 
Wheal Concord, St Agnes, Cornwall, United Kingdom
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.6 × 2.5 × 1.7 cm
Description

A lovely little specimen with well formed reflective cassiterite crystals. From a less common Cornish tin mine.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Cassiterite

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