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Jeanbandyite & Stottite

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Jeanbandyite & Stottite

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Description
Locality: 
Tsumeb Mine, Otavi Highlands, Namibia
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.5 × 1.8 × 1.4 cm
Description

Yellow octahedral jeanbandyite associated with very large dark brown stottite in germanite-chalcocite matrix.

SEM-EDS & Raman analysed. 

Analysis no MA1963.

 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Jeanbandyite

Formula: 
(Fe2+,Mn2+)[Sn4+(OH)6]
Strunz: 
4.FC.15
Crystal System: 
Tetragonal
Hardness: 
3.5
Type Locality: 
Siglo Veinte Mine (Siglo XX Mine; Llallagua Mine; Catavi), Llallagua, Rafael Bustillo Province (Bustillos Province), Potosí Department, Bolivia

Stottite

Formula: 
Fe2+[Ge4+(OH)6]
Strunz: 
4.FC.15
Crystal System: 
Tetragonal
Hardness: 
4.5
Colour: 
Brown
Type Locality: 
Tsumeb Mine (Tsumcorp Mine), Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region (Oshikoto), Namibia