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Cassiterite & Smoky Quartz

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Cassiterite & Smoky Quartz

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Description
Locality: 
Elsmore, Gough County, New South Wales, Australia
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4.3 × 4.2 × 2.2 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.40cm
Description

A nicely twinned lusterous cassiterite rests against a smoky quartz crystal on a quartz matrix with some smaller cassiterite crystals. There appears to be no damage to the cassiterite, a good crystal for this well known tin producing area.

Specimen has a small sawn area on it base and weighs 77 grams

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Cassiterite

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

Smoky Quartz

Variety Of: 

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Hardness: 
7.0
Formula: 
SiO2
Hardness: 
0.0
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