Recently Released Special Editions
Tin Minerals
Introducing the "Tin Minerals" gallery which is part of our Special Edition galleries. This gallery contains mineral specimens for sale including cassiterite, stannite, toyohaite, and wickmanite and more from places like Wheal Maid Decline dumps, St. Day, Redruth, Cornwall, England, North Seal Hole mine, St Agnes Consols, St Agnes, Cornwall, England, Pirquitas Ag-Sn Deposit, Rinconada Dept., Jujuy, Argentina, and San Martín mine, Sombrerete, Zacatecas, Mexico.
Stannite
- $95.00 - Available
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- Locality
- Redruth, Cornwall, England
- Formula
- Cu2FeSnS4
- Availability
- Available
- Price
- $95.00
- Size
- 5 x 4.5 x 3 cm - Miniature
- Tagged
- sulfide , copper , tin
Massive silvery black mass from a desirable locality. It comes out of the A. E. Seaman surplus collection with an old label, see prov. tab.
Stannite
- Formula
- Cu2FeSnS4
- Crystal System
- Tetragonal
- Crystal Habit
- Massive - Granular, Crystalline - Fine
- Cleavage
- Imperfect, None, None
- Luster
- Metallic
- Color
- blue, grayish black, steel gray
- Streak
- black
- Class
- Tetragonal - Scalenohedral
- Fracture
- Uneven
- Hardness
- 3.5-4
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- On Dakota Matrix
- Previously Sold Stannite
- On Dakota Matrix
- Other Available Stannite
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- Mindat
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Toyohaite
- $350.00 - Available
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- Locality
- Pirquitas Ag-Sn Deposit, Rinconada Dept., Jujuy, Argentina
- Formula
- Ag2FeSn3S8
- Availability
- Available
- Price
- $350.00
- Size
- 4 x 3 x 3 cm - Miniature
- Tagged
- sulfide , tin , silver
- Special Info
- XRD Confirmed
- Special Info
- EDS Confirmed
Ex. Dr Werner Paar specimen with microscopic Toyohaite crystals not seen with the naked eye in Franckeite and Cylindrite matrix. Toyohaite is an extremely rare silver-tin sulfide. On the backside is a 1mm tetragonal Pirquitasite crystal much like the one photographed by Brent Thorne on Mindat click here.
Comes with the original Werner Paar label and also a Josef Vajdak label. See prov. tab.
Toyohaite
- Formula
- Ag2FeSn3S8
- Crystal System
- Tetragonal
- Luster
- Metallic
- Color
- gray
- Class
- Tetragonal - Dipyramidal
- Hardness
- 4
- Collection
- Kenneth Raabe Collection, Ex. Dr. Werner Paar Collection
- Special Info
- XRD Confirmed
- Special Info
- EDS Confirmed
- On Dakota Matrix
- Previously Sold Toyohaite
- On Dakota Matrix
- Other Available Toyohaite
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- Mindat
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