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Cassiterite

Ex Dr. Krantz, Bonn, Germany
With Antique Label

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Description
Locality: 
Geyer, Ehrenfriedersdorf, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7 × 9 × 4 cm
Weight: 
306.00gr
Description

Old-time tin ore specimen from well-known Geyer, Ehrenfriedersdorf, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany. It hosts crystalline, brown cassiterite in different shapes, seeming to have clearly defined crystal faces, in-grown in a light grey quartz-feldspar matrix.

Comes with beautiful old, stamp-like label (with the original glue on the backside) from an unknown collection, dated 19th century.
The label means: "VI Klasse: Metalloxyde 2. Ordn, 8. Gruppe, 1. Sippe(?): Zinnoxyde - Zinnerz - Geyer Erzgebirge" (VI class: metal oxydes, 2. order, 8. group, 1. taxon(?): tin oxydes - tin ore - Geyer Erzgebirge) - This refers to an old mineralogical system of classes and orders.

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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