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Cassiterite On Muscovite

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Cassiterite On Muscovite

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Description
Locality: 
Pingwu Mine, Mount Xuebaoding, Pingwu County, Mianyang, Sichuan Province, China (Peoples Republic)
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.6 × 2.8 × 2.2 cm
Description

A fine cluster of vee twinned cassiterite crystals in books of silvery muscovite. The groupappears from of damage, with very good lustre and display well through a 360 degree rotation.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Cassiterite

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

Muscovite

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