There is a complete series between canfieldite and its germanium analogue, argyrodite.
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Canfieldite was first described in 1893 from an occurrence in Colquechaca, Potos?Department, Bolivia.
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"' Canfieldite "'is a rare silver tin sulfide mineral with formula : Ag 8 SnS 6.
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Isomorphous with argyrodite is the corresponding tin bearing mineral Ag 8 SnS 6, also found in Bolivia as pseudocubic crystals, and known by the name canfieldite.
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Cassiterite ( SnO 2 ) is the only commercially important source of tin, although small quantities of tin are recovered from complex sulfides such as stannite, cylindrite, franckeite, canfieldite, and teallite.
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