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Tennantite-Tetrahedrite Series

Tennantite-Tetrahedrite Series
Photo Copyright © 2006 by Collectors Edge. All Rights Reserved.
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This specimen was listed for sale on MinVision.com. To view more fine minerals on MinVision.com Click here.  - This image is copyrighted. Unauthorized reproduction prohibited.
Note: The mineral species Tennantite-Tetrahedrite Series is not listed in our database for this locality. This specimen may be misidentified or the mindat list of minerals at this locality may be incomplete.
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Locality Updated: Arandis Tin Mine, Arandis, Swakopmund District, Erongo Region, NamibiaFrom Debbie Woolf, 23rd May 2013 22:19:58
















The specimen features numerous, well-formed, lustrous, silvery-metallic crystals of tennantite-tetrahedrite on a nicely contrasting matrix of small milky quartz crystals. This occurrence was written about in detail by John S. White Jr., in the May-June, 1972 issue of the Mineralogical Record (v.3, p 115-119). White determined the tennantite-tetrahedrite to be a oriented overgrowth over single crystals of chalcopyrite. He found the layer of tennantite-tetrahedrite to be of remarkably uniform thickness, about 0.5mm. What makes this specimen so very special is that the tennantite-tetrahedite crystals are liberally sprinkled across two large quartz coated "discs" which appear to be a pseudomorphs after calcite(?) and/or barite(?). The specimen measures 150mm x 150mm x 100mm. This is a special and important specimen!
Size: 127mm x 127mm x 95mm
Collection: ex-US National Museum Collection (Smithsonian)
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Photo added: 5th Aug 2006