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varlamoffite Min.|vɑːləˈmɒfaɪt|
[a. F. varlomoffite (H. Buttgenbach Les Minéraux de Belgique et du Congo Belge (1947) 182), f. the name of N. Varlamoff, mining engineer who found the mineral: see -ite1.]
A yellowish cryptocrystalline powdery material, perhaps (Sn,Fe) (O,OH)2, that is related to or perhaps identical with cassiterite.
1948Mineral. Abstr. X. 354 A new mineral varlamoffite, H2SnO3, as yellow earthy material mixed with grains of cassiterite from Kalima, Belgian Congo, is here included for the first time. 1970Mineral. Mag. XXXVII. 626 Most of the reported occurrences of varlamoffite show a strong spatial association with stannite, and most workers have concluded that it is a secondary mineral resulting from the attack of meteoric waters on stannite. |