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Cassiterite On Smoky Quartz

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Cassiterite On Smoky Quartz

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Description
Locality: 
Weilasituo, Hexigten Banner, Ulanhad League, Inner Mongolia, China (Peoples Republic)
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.5 × 4 × 2.5 cm
Largest Crystal: 
3.50cm
Weight: 
39.00gr
Description

Small lustrous cassiterites (the front one not complete, but main ones very nice) sit on smoky quartz crystals. The mine; Weilasituo was explored and documented by B. Ottens and you can read all about it's interesting mineral paragnesis in Lapis magazine #43 Oct 2018.

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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