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Ore Mineral Specimens 4
Introducing the "Ore Mineral Specimens 4" gallery which is part of our Special Edition galleries. This gallery contains mineral specimens for sale including bastnasite-(ce), bismuth, bornite, butte mineral set, cassiterite and more from places like Mountain Pass mine, San Bernardino Co., California, United States, Dolcoath mine, Camborne, Cornwall, England, Tada mine, Kawabe-gun, Hyogo Pref., Honshu Island, Japan, Butte dist., Silver Bow Co., Montana, United States, Excepcion mine, Poopo prov., Oruro dept., Bolivia, and Klappa-Kampit mine, Biliton, Indonesia.
Bismuth
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- Locality
- Dolcoath mine, Camborne, Cornwall, England
- Formula
- Bi
- Availability
- Sold
- Size
- 4.5 x 3.5 x 3.5 cm - Miniature
- Tagged
- native element
Coarse granular ore specimen with both Bismuth and Skutteridite grains throughout matrix. Barstow label.
According to the USGS 2015 Commodity report, bismuth was used in principally in pharmaceutical production and accounted for two thirds of U.S. consumption. Bismuth compounds were also used in superconductors and pearlescent pigments for cosmetics and paints. China has evidently developed a low-melting-point bismuth alloy which can be used in 3D printing.
Bismuth
- Formula
- Bi
- Crystal System
- Trigonal
- Crystal Habit
- Platy, Lamellar, Granular
- Cleavage
- Perfect, None, None
- Luster
- Metallic
- Color
- silver white, pinkish white, red
- Streak
- silver white
- Class
- Trigonal - Hexagonal Scalenohedral
- Fracture
- Uneven
- Hardness
- 2-2.5
- Collection
- Phillips Collection
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- On Dakota Matrix
- Previously Sold Bismuth
- On Dakota Matrix
- Other Available Bismuth
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Bornite
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- Locality
- Tada mine, Kawabe-gun, Hyogo Pref., Honshu Island, Japan
- Formula
- Cu5FeS4
- Availability
- Sold
- Size
- 8 x 6 x 5 cm - Sm Cabinet
- Tagged
- sulfide , copper
An ore specimen composed of purplish massive Bornite and grey partitions of stannoidite. According to Mindat this mine dates back to 1211 and closed in 1973! It would make an interesting study piece for microprobe work. See old tag in prov. tab.
Bornite
- Formula
- Cu5FeS4
- Crystal System
- Orthorhombic
- Crystal Habit
- Massive - Granular, Reniform, Granular
- Cleavage
- Imperfect, None, None
- Luster
- Metallic
- Color
- copper red, bronze brown, purple
- Streak
- grayish black
- Class
- Orthorhombic - Dipyramidal
- Fracture
- Conchoidal
- Hardness
- 3
- Collection
- Phillips Collection
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- View Bornite
- On Dakota Matrix
- Previously Sold Bornite
- On Dakota Matrix
- Other Available Bornite
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- Mindat
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Butte Mineral Set
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- Locality
- Butte dist., Silver Bow Co., Montana, United States
- Availability
- Sold
- Size
- 22 x 22 x 3.5 cm - Cabinet
A 16 mineral set of authentic Butte mining district minerals, mostly ore specimens. Please read all about this interesting set in the povenance tab. Don Phillps purchased this set from the well-known Butte authority Duane Johnson in 1974. This is an excellent set with good specimens of Covellite, Enargite, Bornite, Digenite and many other minerals.
Butte was a one of the most important copper mining districts in the world. A total of 21.5 billion pounds of copper were produced between 1880 and 2004. Zinc, manganese, lead, molybdenum, silver and gold were also produced in enormous quantities. Click here to read more about Butte.
- Collection
- Phillips Collection
- On Dakota Matrix
- Previously Sold Butte Mineral Set
- On Dakota Matrix
- Other Available Butte Mineral Set
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- Mindat
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Cassiterite
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- Locality
- Excepcion mine, Poopo prov., Oruro dept., Bolivia
- Formula
- SnO2
- Availability
- Sold
- Size
- 8 x 6 x 5 cm - Sm Cabinet
- Tagged
- tin
Chocolate brown 1mm crystals embedded in matrix with Limonite.
Tin is promarily used in the manufacture of cans and containers and also used extensively in construction, transportation, and electrical applications. Although tin is used in many applications, substitutes are widely used and include glass, aluminum, paper, and plastic.
Cassiterite
- Formula
- SnO2
- Crystal System
- Tetragonal
- Crystal Habit
- Prismatic, Massive, Botryoidal
- Cleavage
- Perfect, Indistinct, None
- Luster
- Adamantine
- Color
- brown, brownish black, colorless, green, gray
- Streak
- brownish white
- Class
- Tetragonal - Ditetragonal Dipyramidal
- Fracture
- Irregular
- Hardness
- 6-7
- Collection
- Phillips Collection
- Mineralpedia
- View Cassiterite
- On Dakota Matrix
- Previously Sold Cassiterite
- On Dakota Matrix
- Other Available Cassiterite
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- Mindat
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