Description
These are two small, perfectly automorphic cassiterite crystals nicely arranged on a hyaline quartz crystal. Beautiful miniature.
Cassiterite is one of the main tin ores. Cassiterite and quartz crystal from the Horní Slavkov (Schlaggenwald) mining province, Czech Republic. Specimen from the collection of Belgian René Hubin. Video of this cassiterite crystal specimen from Horní Slavkov (Schlaggenwald) in the Czech Republic:
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