Chovanite

Analyzed. Collection and photo: Stephan Wolfsried. Sony Alpha 7R ii, bellows, Mitutoyo M Plan 5x, aperture, Raynox DCR-250 retro, Stack-Master linear actor, stack shot control.

© Stephan Wolfsried 12/2016

Irregular aggregates of massive metallic grey chovanite with minor white quartz from the type locality. Field of view is 12 mm. Self collected. Chovanite was confirmed by PXRD and EMPA-WDS by Jiří Sejkora. Martin Števko collection. Photographed by Pavel Škácha. Ref.: Števko M. (2021): Nové nálezy minerálov na antimónovom ložisku ...

© Martin Števko

Cotype of chovanite: a polished black aggregate embedded in resin. From the area in the top left, the fragment used for the crystal-structure determination was mechanically extracted. Collection NHM Vienna (cat. no. O 2406).

© Uwe Kolitsch

Sony Alpha 7R ii, bellows, Mitutoyo M Plan 5x, aperture, Raynox DCR-250 retro, Stack-Master linear actor, stack shot control. Analyzed. Collection and photo: Stephan Wolfsried

© Stephan Wolfsried 12/2016

Nice laths of chovanite - one of very few antimony sulfosalts (or thioantimonates(III)) with oxide anion, shared only (as for now) with scainiite and pillaite. Photo layer composing/stacking technique used.

© Łukasz Kruszewski 2020

Aggregate of intermixed dark grey metallic acicular Chovanite and Robinsonite crystals Ex Marco Poli collection Acquired from Niels Van Velzen on 4 September 2020

Nice laths of chovanite - one of very few antimony sulfosalts (or thioantimonates(III)) with oxide anion, shared only (as for now) with scainiite and pillaite. Photo layer composing/stacking technique used.

© Łukasz Kruszewski 2020

Almost pure aggregate of tiny, dark, acicular chovanite crystals. From a very limited occurrence at the mine and analysed by the University of Pisa. Purchased from Marzio Mamberti in 2017. Stack of 95 images.

© Andrew Hodgson