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Jeanbandyite with Fluorite

#BAC60666

Jeanbandyite with Fluorite

#BAC60666
Availability
Sold
Size
3 x 2.4 x 2 cm - Thumbnail 
Formula
(Fe3+,Mn2+)Sn4+(OH,O)6 (RRUFF)
Locality
Mt. Pleasant mine, Charlotte Co., New Brunswick, Canada
Tagged
tin

Murky yellow, crude tetragonal dipyramids to about 0.5mm. There are numerous crystals all over the specimen. I am not sure what the brownish yellow spherical groups are. The matrix is Fluorite.

Jeanbandyite

Formula
(Fe3+,Mn2+)Sn4+(OH,O)6 
Crystal System
Tetragonal 
Crystal Habit
Crystalline - Coarse, Striated, Pseudo Octohedral 
Cleavage
Good, Fair, None 
Luster
Vitreous - Adamantine 
Color
brown orange, red brown, pale yellow 
Streak
light yellow 
Class
Tetragonal - Dipyramidal 
Hardness
3.5 

Data courtesy of Webmineral.

Collection
William & Anne Cook Collection

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