tusionite
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Tusionite is a rare colorless to transparent to translucent yellow brown trigonal borate mineral with chemical formula: MnSn(BO3)2. The mineral is composed of 18.86% manganese, 40.76% tin, 7.42% boron, and 32.96% oxygen. It is a late stage hydrothermal mineral and occurs rarely in granite pegmatites in miarolitic cavities.
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It is catalogued under topics including Borate minerals, Manganese minerals and Minerals described in 1983.
Its subject is documented across 8 Wikipedia language editions.
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- borate class of minerals
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- Tusionite
- Nickel-Strunz '10th ed', review of (9th ed/ 2009 update)
- 6.AA.15
- Nickel-Strunz 9th edition (updated 2009)
- 6.AA.15
- crystal system
- trigonal crystal system
- streak color
- white
- IMA Mineral Symbol
- Tsn
- chemical formula
- Mn²⁺Sn₄+[BO₃]₂
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Tusionite is a rare colorless to transparent to translucent yellow brown trigonal borate mineral with chemical formula: MnSn(BO3)2. The mineral is composed of 18.86% manganese, 40.76% tin, 7.42% boron, and 32.96% oxygen. It is a late stage hydrothermal mineral and occurs rarely in granite pegmatites in miarolitic cavities.
Tusionite was named for the location where the mineral was first discovered and described in 1983 in the Tusion River Valley in the Pamir Mountains of Tajikistan. Tusionite has also been reported from Recice in the Czech Republic and in pegmatites at Thomas Mountain, Riverside County, California.
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