Mindat Short Description
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Occurs as greyish metallic grains and nuggets to 1 cm.
Some occurrences may be anthropogenic (product of the smelting of cassiterite ore).
Geoscience Ontology Status Notes
Mineral name has been known since antiquity and predates any formal descriptive publication.
IMA Formula (from Mindat)
Sn
RRUFF Formula (from Geoscience Ontology)
Sn