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Badiko District, Bauchi State, Nigeria 0.7 x 0.4 x 0.3 cm. A HISTORIC and noteworthy native tin thumbnail from an UNCOMMON locality - the Badiko District of Nigeria! Native tin is RARE worldwide and this is an excellent quality piece. This silver-gray, subhedral was collected in 1893 and for many years resided in the Sorbonne Collection in Paris (according to previous owner). John ... |
| © Rob Lavinsky | Photo ID: 160365 View Count: 181 |
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Neiva River, Sysert' district, Ekaterinburgskaya (Sverdlovskaya) Oblast', Middle Urals, Urals Region, Russia Broken side of micronugget of native Tin from heavy nonmagnetic concentrate of sands Neiva river. Fresh broken surface demonstrate to us the typical tin-white colour of metal. Associated minerals invisible on the photo are small grains of Gold included into Romarchite crust covering native metal. FOV is ~2.3x1.7 mm. Pavel M. Kartashov collection ... |
| © Pavel M. Kartashov | Photo ID: 159158 View Count: 172 |
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Kumak ore field, Orenburgskaya Oblast', Southern Urals, Urals Region, Russia Polished microprobe preparate from two nuggets mounted in epoxy wax. Both nuggets composed by mixture of micrograins pure metals - native lead, tin, aluminium, gold and quartz inclusions. The larger nugget is more rich by lead, but the smaller one is tin dominant. I am repeat again, this isn't any alloy, but mixture of pure metal grains. Note ... |
| © Pavel M. Kartashov | Photo ID: 159160 View Count: 397 |
Tin : Sn, Albite : Na[AlSi3O8] | |
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Carsaig Bay, Carsaig, Isle of Mull, Strathclyde (Argyllshire), Scotland, UK A very rare 1.5mm dia ball of tin on white albite. The specimen was collected by Beryl Taylor a long standing UK collector. From a boulder on the beach at Carsaig Bay. The image shows one of three examples of tin found at this location. |
| © Beryl Taylor | Photo ID: 253786 View Count: 54 |
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