Cassiterite
At a glance
- Type
- Mineral
- Group
- Oxide
- Crystal system
- Tetragonal
- Hardness
- Hard (5.5 to 7.5)
- Colour
- Black, Brown
- Lustre
- Brilliant
- Use
- Ore
- Difficulty in WildGuessr
- Hard
Did you know?
- Tin from cassiterite, mixed with copper, makes bronze, the metal that gave the Bronze Age its name.
- Cassiterite is about seven times denser than water, so streams pile it up in heavy gravel deposits.
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Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q191222 · All stones · All entries