Description: Cassiterite Great Work Mine, Breage, Cornwall, England, UK. largest crystal 6mm. This Cornish cassiterite was once in the Freiberg mining Academy in Saxony, Germany (its label dates it there to between 1880-1905). From Freiberg it made its way to Chile's national Museum, the Museo de Santiago. Rescued by Skip Szenics in the late 1900s, he brought it back to New York in the USA. In 2002, he brought it down to Tucson, from whence I repatriated it back to the UK. This is a well-travelled tin! Located only as Cornwall on the Freiberg label, this specimen has been compared to others in the Natural History Museum Collection in London. Its matrix and composition matches those in the Russell Collection from Great Work Mine in Breage.

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