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DESCRIPTION: | No. 69157 |
Mineral: | Stannite with Arsenopyrite |
Locality: | Yaogangxian Mine, Nanling Mountains, Hunan, China |
Description: | Lustrous yellow-gray metallic stannite crystals to 10 mm with lustrous pseudo-pyramidal metallic arsenopyrite crystals to 5 mm. The stannite surfaces are composed of many smaller parallel crystal faces. Stannite is an uncommon copper-iron-tin sulfide. Ex. Georg Gebhard. For locality information see: Mineralogical Record v.42#6, Rocks and Minerals v.80#1 |
Overall Size: | 23x20x15 mm |
Crystals: | 2-10 mm |
Archived: | For reference only |
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