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Stibiconite after Stibnite - Sold
- Catorce
- Municipio de Wadley
- San Luis Potosí
- Mexico
- 4.6 × 1.2 × 1.0 cm – Thumbnail specimen (fits into a 2.5 cm cube)
Stibiconite is an antimony oxide with the pyrochlore crystal structure. In a massive nomenclature change of such minerals, the species stibiconite was discredited (Atencio et al., 2010). Later reconsideration that material once called stibiconite represents a distinct mineral species, but its proper name in teh new nomenclature ssytem requires additional work (Christy & Atencio, 2013). This is a sharp pseudomorph of stibiconite after a prismatic stibnite crystal. Quite sharp for one of these.