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Cassiterite

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Description
Locality: 
Manono-Kitotolo Mine, Tanganyika, DR Congo
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.5 × 3.4 × 3 cm
Description

Dark brown cassiterite crystals imbedded in a muscovite matrix. Specimen #165 of the collection of Eudore Toussaint, a Belgian chemical engineer in the D.R.Congo from 1948 to 1971.

It comes with the original label from the collection, mounted in a wood base.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Cassiterite

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

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