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Cassiterite

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Cassiterite

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Description
Locality: 
La Parrilla Mine, Almoharín, Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.5 × 2.2 × 1.4 cm
Description

These specimens from La Parrilla mine are nowadays really impossible to obtain. Only in former collections. This one is from the Joan Astor collection (Barcelona). Gemmy crystals. 

Collected: 
1975
Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Cassiterite

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