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Cassiterite

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Locality: 
Fowey Consols, Tywardreath, Cornwall, United Kingdom
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.4 × 4.4 × 3.2 cm
Description

Several well developed, chocolate brown crystals of Cassiterite from classic Fowey Consols of Cornwall. The label says "Needle Tin" but the crystals are just a bit elongated. For my opinion not enough to describe it as that. Anyway, interesting and old.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Cassiterite

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