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Wood Tin

Ex Robert Jakob Collection
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Description
Locality: 
Sancreed, Cornwall, United Kingdom
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.7 × 3.1 × 3.1 cm
Description

This is a fine massive cassiterite as so called wood tin. The appearance of the piece is reminiscent of hematite-kidney ore. At on part of this great oldtimed Cornish specimen there is  the colour zoning clearly. This is not the largest, but one of the most aesthetic wood tins we handled in the last years.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Wood Tin

Variety Of: 

Cassiterite

Formula: 
SnO2
Strunz: 
4.DB.05
Hardness: 
6.0 - 7.0
Hardness: 
0.0
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