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RM3350   Cassiterite, tourmaline and quartz

The tin mine at Viloco (sometimes called Araca) has produced some of the most magnificent cassiterite specimens worldwide, and a very small percentage of these pieces are actually associated with tourmaline. This specimen hosts a few fine, sharp, lustrous, translucent, brown/black cyclic twinned crystals of cassiterite with small quartz crystals and small acicular greenish-black crystals of tourmaline (dravite?). This association is seen in only a handful of cassiterite specimens from this historic locality.

Size: 6 x 4.8 x 3.3 cm.
Main crystal: 14 mm.
Found in ±2009.
320 €