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FROM : Zlaty Kopec, Kruné Hory, Czech Republic
SIZE : 18.8 x 12.3 cm

The schoenfliesite covers the tetrahedral crystals of magnetite. The schoenfliesite is orangeish yellow. It measures 18.8 x 12.3 cm.

The sample comes from Zlaty Kopec in Czech Republic. It is today kept in the storage rooms of the collections of the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle (i.e., not yet displayed to the public).

Photography: Louis-Dominique Bayle, © MNHN.

SPECIE : Schoenfliesite

HISTORY : Species dedicated to the German mathematician Arthur Moritz Schoenflies (1853-1928)

Species first described in 1971 by Georges Tobias Faust (1908-1985) and Waldemar Theodore Schaller, American mineralogists

Type-locality: Brooks Mountains, Seward Peninsula, Alaska, USA

CHEMICAL FORMULA : MgSn(OH)6
CRYSTAL SYSTEM : Cubic
COLOR : Coulorless
DIAPHANIETY : Transparent
LUSTER : Vitreous
STREAK : White
MORPHOLOGY : Tiny grains, massive, fibrous
HARDNESS : 4,0-4,5
DENSITY : 3,49

CHEMICAL CLASS : IV - Oxides and hydroxide
GROUP : Schoenfliesite
STRUNZ CLASS BEFORE 2001 : 4/F.16-10
STRUNZ CLASS AFTER 2001 : 4.FL.10

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