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Tin Minerals

Saturday, 12 October 2024 08:00 AM

Introducing the "Tin Minerals" gallery which is part of our Special Edition galleries. This gallery contains mineral specimens for sale including malayaite, mawsonite, natanite, and nordenskiöldine and more from places like Ash Mountain, Tuya Range, British Columbia, Canada, Tada mine, Kawabe-gun, Hyogo Pref., Honshu Island, Japan, 10th level, Potosi mine, Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico, and Mt. Ear, Seward peninsula, Alaska, United States.

Malayaite

#BAC64359
Locality
Ash Mountain, Tuya Range, British Columbia, Canada 
Formula
CaSnO(SiO4
Availability
Sold
Size
4.2 x 3.8 x 1.8 cm - Miniature 
Tagged
tin  
Special Info
Fluorescent 

Malayaite is the tin analogue of Titanite. The crystal here, in the second photo, is fluorescent and mimics the shape of a Titanite crystal. It measures 7mm. Escellent specimen.


Malayaite

Formula
CaSnO(SiO4
Crystal System
Monoclinic 
Crystal Habit
Wedge shaped, Massive 
Luster
Vitreous (Glassy) 
Color
colorless, greenish gray, white, light yellow, orange 
Streak
white 
Class
Monoclinic - Prismatic 
Hardness
3.5-4 
Collection
William & Anne Cook Collection
Special Info
Fluorescent

Mawsonite

in Bornite - #BAC61701
Locality
Tada mine, Kawabe-gun, Hyogo Pref., Honshu Island, Japan 
Formula
Cu6Fe2SnS8 
Availability
Sold
Size
3.4 x 1 x 0.4 cm - Miniature 
Tagged
sulfide , copper , tin  

A slab sawed and polished for identification by reflected light, which reveals rosey brown Mawsonite with other sulfides.


Mawsonite

Formula
Cu6Fe2SnS8 
Crystal System
Tetragonal 
Crystal Habit
Microscopic Crystals, Inclusions 
Cleavage
Indistinct, Indistinct, None 
Luster
Metallic 
Color
brown orange, bronze 
Class
Tetragonal - Scalenohedral 
Hardness
3.5-4 
Collection
William & Anne Cook Collection
SOLD
Natanite - 51598
Natanite - 51598

Natanite

with Ilvaite - #51598
Locality
10th level, Potosi mine, Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico 
Formula
Fe2+Sn4+(OH)6 
Availability
Sold
Size
5 x 3 x 3 cm - Miniature 
Tagged
tin  
Special Info
XRD Confirmed 
Special Info
EDS Confirmed 

A single 1mm octahedral orange crystal.


Natanite

Formula
Fe2+Sn4+(OH)6 
Crystal System
Isometric 
Cleavage
None, None, None 
Luster
Vitreous (Glassy) 
Color
greenish brown 
Class
Isometric - Hexoctahedral 
Hardness
Special Info
XRD Confirmed
Special Info
EDS Confirmed
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Natanite

with Ilvaite - #51599
Locality
10th level, Potosi mine, Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico 
Formula
Fe2+Sn4+(OH)6 
Availability
Sold
Size
4.5 x 4 x 2.3 cm - Miniature 
Tagged
tin  

Several orange octahedral crystals to 1m with black Ilvaite.


Natanite

Formula
Fe2+Sn4+(OH)6 
Crystal System
Isometric 
Cleavage
None, None, None 
Luster
Vitreous (Glassy) 
Color
greenish brown 
Class
Isometric - Hexoctahedral 
Hardness
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Natanite

Ilvaite - #51630
Locality
10th level, Potosi mine, Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico 
Formula
Fe2+Sn4+(OH)6 
Availability
Sold
Size
4 x 2.5 x 2.4 cm - Miniature 
Tagged
tin  

Orange octahedral crystal to about 0.75mm with Ilvaite.


Natanite

Formula
Fe2+Sn4+(OH)6 
Crystal System
Isometric 
Cleavage
None, None, None 
Luster
Vitreous (Glassy) 
Color
greenish brown 
Class
Isometric - Hexoctahedral 
Hardness
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Nordenskiöldine - 64762
Nordenskiöldine - 64762

Nordenskiöldine

#64762
Locality
Mt. Ear, Seward peninsula, Alaska, United States 
Formula
CaSn4+[BO3]2 
Availability
Sold
Size
3.5 x 2.3 x 0.8 cm - Miniature 
Tagged
tin  
Special Info
Fluorescent 
Special Info
XRD Confirmed 
Special Info
EDS Confirmed 

A 2mm crystal aggregate of colorless, platy crystals. Fluorescent.


Special Info
Fluorescent
Special Info
XRD Confirmed
Special Info
EDS Confirmed

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