Where it forms, where it's found
- Geological setting
Oxidized zone of a tin deposit.
- Type locality
- Mushiston Deposit
- Kaznok Valley
- Pendzhikent District
- Zeravshan Range
- Sughd
- Tajikistan
39.3100°, 67.9717°
8recorded occurrences
Physical
- Hardness
- 1Talc
- 2Gypsum
- 3Calcite
- 4Fluorite
- 5Apatite
- 6Orthoclase
- 7Quartz
- 8Topaz
- 9Corundum
- 10Diamond
- Transparency
- Transparent
- Colour
- Brownish green to malachite-green · yellow-brown
Optical
- Optical type
- Isotropic
- Optical colour
- Gray
- Tropism
- Isotropic
Crystallography
- Space group
- #74
- Cell parameters
- a = 7.5918(3) Å · b = 7.5915(3) Å · c = 8.0965(1) Å
- Ratio a:b:c
- 1 : 1.000 : 1.066
- Unit cell volume
- 466.63 ų
- Type-locality form
In fine-grained earthy aggregates.
- Comment
Room temperature data (300 K) for synthetic material (Kulbakov et al., 2025). At 6 K, the cell is: a = 7. 5764(1) Å, b = 7. 5740(1) Å, c = 8. 0691(1) Å, V = 463.04(1) Å3. Pseudotetragonal. Formerly thought to be tetragonal, space group P42/nnm, a = b = 7.586 Å and c = 8.103 Å. In natural samples with high Zn and Fe concentrations, the crystal symmetry becomes cubic (space group Pn3m).
Crystal structure
Chemical composition
Synonyms
- IMA1982-068
- Mushistoniet
In other languages
- German
- IMA 1982-068 · Mushistonit
- Spanish
- Mushistonita
- Italian
- Mushistonite
Classification
Strunz
10th ed.4.FC.10
- 4OxidesClass
- 4.FHydroxides (without V or U)Division
- 4.FCHydroxides with OH, without H2O; corner-sharing octahedraGroup
- 4.FC.10MushistoniteSpecies
Dana
8th ed.06.03.06.06
- 06Hydroxides and Oxides Containing HydroxylClass
- 06.03X(OH)3Type
- 06.03.06Wickmanite group (Cubic or Trigonal, 2+ cations containing Sn)Group
- 06.03.06.06MushistoniteSpecies
CIM
—7.11.11
- 7Oxides and HydroxidesClass
- 7.11Oxides of Sn and PbGroup
- 7.11.11MushistoniteSpecies
Group, growth & confusion
Literature, links & citation
Citations
- 1976Morgenstern-Badarau, Irène (1976) Effet Jahn-Teller et structure cristalline de l'hydroxyde CuSn(OH)6. Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 17. 399-406 doi:10.1016/s0022-4596(76)80010-2DOI: 10.1016/s0022-4596(76)80010-2
- 1984Marshukova, N.K., Pavlovskii, A.B., Sidorenko, G.A. (1984) Mushistonite, (Cu,Zn,Fe)Sn(OH)6, a new tin mineral. Zapiski Vsesoyuznogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchestva: 113(5): 612-617.
- 1985Dunn, Pete J., Ferraiolo, James A., Fleischer, Michael, Gobel, Volker, Grice, Joel D., Langley, Richard H., Shigley, James E., Vanko, David A., Zilczer, Janet A. (1985) New mineral names. American Mineralogist, 70 (11-12) 1329-1335
- 1986Roberts, Willard L., Dunn, Pete J. (1986) Cuprocassiterite Discredited as Mushistonite; And an Unnamed Tin Mineral from the Etta Mine [South Dakota]. The Mineralogical Record, 17 (6) 383
- 2005(2005) Mushistonite. Handbook of Mineralogy. Mineralogical Society of America
Cite this entry
@misc{mineral2026,
author = {Mineral Index editorial board},
title = {Mushistonite — Mineral Index},
year = {2026},
url = {https://mineralindex.org/minerals/mushistonite-2817},
note = {Accessed 2026-05-11}
}