Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Mushistonite & Kësterite

Views:
Watches:
SKY552376

Mushistonite & Kësterite

Rare Mineral

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Mount Xuebaoding, Pingwu County, Mianyang, Sichuan Province, China (Peoples Republic)
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.5 × 1 × 0.7 cm
Description

Green mushistonite (a rare Sn hydroxide) pseudomorph after kesterite ( a Sn complex sulphide) , both associated to green minoritary malachite and possible greyish-pale green massive varlamoffite (a Sn oxide-hydroxide), so a trilogy of Sn minerals !

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Mushistonite

Formula: 
(Cu,Zn,Fe2+)[Sn(OH)6]
Strunz: 
4.FC.10
Hardness: 
4.0 - 4.5
Type Locality: 
Mushiston Deposit, Kaznok Valley, Pendzhikent (Penjikent; Panjakent), Zeravshan Range, Viloyati Sogd (Viloyati Sughd; Viloyati Khodzhent; Viloyati Leninabad), Tajikistan

Kësterite

Formula: 
Cu2(Zn,Fe)SnS4
Strunz: 
2.CB.15a
Hardness: 
4.5
Streak: 
Black
Type Locality: 
Këster Deposit (Kester Deposit), Arga-Ynnakh-Khaya granite Massif, Yana-Adycha Region, Yana River Basin, Verkhoyansk, Sakha Republic (Saha Republic; Yakutia), Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia

Seller Information

Payment options: offline, paypal_wpp, paypal_wps