Cassiterite is a tin oxide mineral, SnO2. It is generally opaque, but it is translucent in thin crystals. Its luster and multiple crystal faces produce...

linked the distant sources of tin to the markets of Bronze Age cultures. Cassiterite (SnO2), oxidized tin, most likely was the original source of tin in ancient...

Nemophora cassiterites is a moth of the Adelidae family or fairy longhorn moths. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1907. It is found in India. Mikhail...

inorganic compound with the formula SnO2. The mineral form of SnO2 is called cassiterite, and this is the main ore of tin. With many other names, this oxide of...

periodic table of elements. It is obtained chiefly from the mineral cassiterite, which contains stannic oxide, SnO 2. Tin shows a chemical similarity...

so it does not normally need extensive processing to remove it; but cassiterite, the chief ore mineral of tin, is usually disseminated as very small...

minerals being illicitly exported from the Congo include tungsten, tin, cassiterite, and coltan (which provides the tantalum for mobile phones, and is also...

muscovite rich rocks, which may be locally rich in topaz, tourmaline, cassiterite, fluorite, beryl, wolframite, siderite, molybdenite and other sulfide...

dolomite, barite (source of barium), bauxite (source of aluminium), cassiterite (source of tin), and gold. In 1990 limestone, used in road construction...

Trade Organization. There is mining of copper, iron, manganese, gold, cassiterite (tin ore), and phosphates. These operations provide employment and generate...

on a small scale. Smuggling of conflict minerals such as coltan and cassiterite, ores of tantalum and tin, respectively, helped to fuel the war in the...

requires systematic techniques: tin must be mined (mainly as the tin ore cassiterite) and smelted separately, then added to hot copper to make bronze alloy...

30% 10% 81 64 53 H060L30C10 Peat Brown 60° 30% 20% 90 61 41 H060L30C20 Cassiterite Brown 60° 30% 27% 98 60 31 H060L30C27 Zinc Grey 60° 40% 5% 101 91 85...

contributor, generating US$93 million in 2008. Minerals mined include cassiterite, wolframite, gold, and coltan, which is used in the manufacture of electronic...

cinnabar (HgS), an ore of mercury; sphalerite (ZnS), an ore of zinc; cassiterite (SnO2), an ore of tin; and colemanite, an ore of boron. Gems are minerals...

in a matrix of quartz, tourmaline, alkali feldspar, brown mica, and cassiterite. The name originates from the village of Luxulyan in Cornwall, United...

have undergone metamorphism. Associated minerals include sphalerite, cassiterite, siderite and briartite. Earth sciences portal List of minerals Warr...

Utah and Chivinar in South America. It can be found with fluorite and cassiterite in various areas including the Ural and Ilmensky mountains of Russia...

Bulgaria and Thrace in the late fifth millennium BC". Tin bronzes using cassiterite tin were subsequently reintroduced to the area some 1500 years later...

Lithium, Lithium oxide Yilgarn Craton, Kalgoorlie Terrane Wodgina Mt Cassiterite, Mt Francisco, Strelley Western Australia 21°10′29″S 118°40′35″E / 21...

subsistence hunting. The mines in these nature reserves were producing cassiterite, gold, coltan and wolframite, and "most mines were controlled by armed...

are large ore sources of tin and tungsten in the form of wolframite, cassiterite, stannite and scheelite. These are the leading source of copper ore....

granite pegmatites and in alluvial deposits. It occurs associated with cassiterite, arsenopyrite, molybdenite, tourmaline, topaz, rhodochrosite and fluorite...

Park. The city sits close to deposits of cassiterite, an ore used to obtain tin, as well as tungsten. Cassiterite is mined in the town of Rutongo, around...

Kano State has different natural resources in abundant, these include Cassiterite Copper Gemstone Glass-sand Lead/Zinc Pyrochinre & Tantalite A2 (part...

food. Among these materials include: Clay Gold Tin Feldspar Tantalite Cassiterite Marble Talc Dolomite Source: People awarded the Honorary citizenship...

associated with tin ore deposits. It is commonly associated with topaz, cassiterite, wolframite, lepidolite, spodumene, beryl, tourmaline, and fluorite....

centre for tin mining when the colonialists discovered huge deposits of cassiterite, the main ore for the metal. It is also the trading hub of the state...

and the state of Amazonas, the town is an important trading center for cassiterite, the mining of which represents the most important economic activity...

scarcely known except to connoisseurs, include andalusite, axinite, cassiterite, clinohumite, painite and red beryl. Gemstone pricing and value are governed...