Scheelite

Scheelite crystals on smoky quartz
Origin: Cinovec, Czech Republic
Picture height: 9 mm
Sample owner: W.J.M. Scheres
 
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Pieter Stemvers, Leusden, Netherlands

email: stemvers@hetnet.nl

 

  
Vuggy scheelite matrix with several vesuvianite crystals to 4 mm
Origin: Traversella, Turin, Italy
Sample size: 6 x 5 x 5 cm
 
 
  
Origin: Taewha mine, Neungam-Ri, Korea
Sample size: top 4 x 3 x 2 cm, crystals to 1.5 cm, bottom 2.5 x 2.5 x 2 cm, crystal 1 cm
 
  
Yellowish scheelite crystals to 1 mm on white willemite matrix
Origin: Ophir mine, Tooele Co., Utah, USA
Sample size: 6 x 6 x 3 cm
 
    
Crystal grains to 5 mm in matrix, fluorescent blue.
Origin: Jensen quarry, Riverside Co., California, United States
Ex. DeVito collection
Sample size: 5.5 x 4 x 2.5 cm

Photo courtesy of: 

Tom Loomis

Dakota Matrix Minerals

 

 
 
Origin: Morro Velho mine, Nova Lima, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Owner: Lou Perloff
Microscopic image
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Lou Perloff

Photo-Atlas of Minerals

 

  
Origin: Tenkerchin Mine, Chukotka, Russia
Sample size: 2.7 x 2 x 2 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone

 

  
Scheelite with beryl on muscovite
Origin: Xue Bao Diang Mountains, north of Pingwu, Sichuan Province, China
Sample size: 9.5 x 6.5 x 3 cm
 
Scheelite on pyrite
Origin: Huanzala mine, Huallanca district, Dos de Mayo Province, Huanuco Department, Peru
Sample size: 25 x 30 x 23 mm, brown scheelite crystal measuring 2.5 mm
 
  
Origin: surface prospect on SW flank of Chalk Mountain, Churchill Co., Nevada, U.S.A.
ex Scott Werschky collection
Sample size: 23 x 13 x 32 mm
 
  
Single brown scheelite crystal with small black crystals of ferberite upon the faces of the scheelite crystal.
Origin: Yaogangxian Mine, Hunan, China
Sample size: 24 x 24 x 13 mm
 
  
Scheelite on quartz
Origin: Yaogangxian Mine, Chenzhou area, Hunan, Central South Region, China
Sample size: 6.2 x 2.6 x 6.8 cm

Photo courtesy of: 

Dan Weinrich

Dealer in fine mineral specimens

 

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