Cassiterite (Var: Wood Tin), Quartz, Cassiterite

Locality: Verkhnee Tin deposit, Karadubsky ore field, Kavalerovo Mining District, Primorskiy Kray, Far-Eastern Region, Russia

Two spherulites of wood tin into quartz vein from Verkhnee Sn deposit deep levels. This spherulites are extremely enriched with indium mineralization - almost all their outer surface covered by dzhalindite film with inclusions of indite relicts, and unidentified Ag-In sulphide, probably laforêtite. Brownish impregnation of quartz is represented by inclusions of brecciated grains of crystalline cassiterite. FOV is ~2x1.5 cm. Collected in 1983 by Nina V. Gorelikova, who is owner of the specimen. Photo of Pavel M. Kartashov.

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